Denise Levertov Quotes
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
Quotes to Explore
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I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
Laini Taylor
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I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.
Jane Elliot
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
Aristotle
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Nikolai Gogol
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At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
Michel Foucault
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Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
Mike Mills
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If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
Richard Simmons
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The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems.
Andrew Haigh
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We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Carl Mydans
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I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.
Coleman Barks
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To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.
Eddie Glaude
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When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.
Jorge Ramos
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Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.
Natalya Neidhart
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For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.
Nancy Tillman
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The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
Reg E. Cathey
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
Elizabeth Berkley
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At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.
Daniel Buren
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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
