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
  • Finish
  • Craft

• 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
  • Trying
  • Friends

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

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

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

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

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

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• 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
  • Fairness

• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Lovely

• 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
  • Words
  • Law

• 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
  • Time
  • Long

• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Religious
  • Product
  • Skepticism

• There's not one minute of my life that hasn't been documented. How do I feel about that? I would feel extremely bad about not having it on camera. That's how natural it is to me.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Life
  • Bad

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Win
  • Try
  • Failing

• 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