Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Young
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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
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• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

  Ferran Adria
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• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
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• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
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• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Grandma

• A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Opinion
  • Progress

• So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

  

  Bono U2
  • Mind
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• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • God

• What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Fun

• I was devastated when I had to go blonde.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Blonde

• The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Nature

• The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

  

  David Droga
  • People

• I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Life
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• I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Birthday

• When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Victory

• Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Understanding
  • Feelings

• War does not decide who is right but who is left.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • War
  • Right
  • Decide

• None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Job
  • Training
  • Spring

• You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Spring
  • Blow
  • Failing