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
  • School
  • Money
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• 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

• 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
  • Father
  • Age

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

  

  David Hockney
  • Doubt

• I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right.

  

  Brett Dalton

• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Place

• 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