Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

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• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Power
  • Order
  • Nuclear Power

• The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reason
  • Process
  • Results

• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Change
  • Did

• Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Psalms

• I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

  

  Donatella Versace

• Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

  

  Max Walker

• I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Nice

• The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Christianity
  • Convincing

• I don't think it's good for the league. I really don't because it kind of makes it fake. Guys wearing those clothes don't want to be wearing those clothes.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Clothes
  • Fake

• The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Life
  • Free
  • Law

• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• He picked out this sentence in a New Yorker casual of mine: 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room,' and he wanted to know why I, or the editors, had put in the comma. I could explain that one all night. I wrote back that this particular comma was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

  

  James Thurber
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Giving
  • Self
  • Giver