Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Age
  • Media

• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
  • School
  • High

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Parents

• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hand

• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Bike

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Attention

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Heart
  • She

• Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • War
  • Death

• It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Baby
  • Sun
  • Bored

• Morsy was not only Egypt's democratically elected president, he is now emerging as the Arab world's Nelson Mandela...during Morsy's one-year reign, Egypt enjoyed freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate peacefully, and not a single one of his political opponents were jailed.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Atheist

• A confession has to be part of your new life.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life

• He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Book
  • Library
  • Bricks

• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Real
  • May
  • Past

• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Heart