Kathleen Raine Quotes

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

Kathleen Raine

• War
• Sleep
• Fire
• Broken
• Tree
• Destruction
• Branches

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• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• There are certain things women are better at than men.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Practice

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Sleep
  • Rose

• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  

  Livy
  • Truth
  • Friendships

• Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Death
  • Bureaucracy

• Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Soul
  • Today

• The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Control

• I wouldn't be where I am without my dad. He's a genius.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Dad

• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Character

• Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Progress

• Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • Waiting

• I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Women
  • America

• I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

  

  James Callis
  • People
  • Moral

• I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

  

  Miesha Tate
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

  

  David Talbot
  • Time
  • War
  • Age

• I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.

  

  Kristen Wiig

• Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • War
  • Sleep
  • Fire