Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • House
  • Beginning
  • Voice

• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Library
  • Then

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Bad
  • Feel
  • Nobody

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Nature
  • Mistakes
  • Goalkeeper

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Why
  • Fly
  • Gymnastics

• I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Mystery

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • American
  • Attitude
  • German

• Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

  

  Vincent Price
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

  

  Steve Rushin
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Athletes

• Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.

  

  James Carville
  • Trying
  • War
  • Game

• I never have voted for a pay increase for me, and with such a huge federal deficit, I don't think it's right to vote for a pay increase for yourself ... My salary is greater than most of the people in my congressional district, and there is no way I can vote for a pay raise when many of them are just getting by.

  

  Lincoln Davis
  • People
  • Vote
  • Salary

• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Spring