Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

Patrick Kavanagh

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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Aaron Levie
- People
- High
- Know
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Basil Rathbone
- People
- More
- Less
Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

Rand Paul
- People
- Time
- Single
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- World
- Family
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

Vernon Howard
- Life
- Friends
- Careless
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz
- Time
- Universe
- Couple