Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Family
  • American
  • America

• My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

  

  John Bates Clark
  • True

• There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Move
  • Mountains

• I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Persons

• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

  

  William Hurt
  • Decision
  • Balance
  • Scene

• I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.

  

  William Shatner
  • College
  • Couple
  • Acting

• Egypt’s prestige abroad was so intact that the “King” of Tyre declared: “All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there” (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Sciences
  • Egypt
  • Prestige

• I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

  

  Deon Cole
  • Want
  • Cool
  • Dragon

• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• I have a ton of broken baby hairs in front. It just comes with the territory of being a soccer player.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Player
  • Baby
  • Broken

• The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

  

  Peter De Vries

• I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • People
  • Movie
  • Action

• Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Stupid
  • Brave

• Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Honesty

• Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Prayer

• It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Sound
  • Cliche

• I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

  

  Brandon Marshall
  • America
  • Opportunities
  • Appreciate

• There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Begets

• Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Begets

• Energy begets energy.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Energy
  • Begets

• It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Begets
  • Eunuchs