Alexander Pope Quotes

Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.

Alexander Pope

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• What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Loyalty
  • Efficiency
  • Fifty

• The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Work
  • House
  • Me

• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • Question
  • First

• You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • You
  • Years
  • Atheist

• I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Write

• That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Great
  • Music
  • Hand

• The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.

  

  Elias Canetti

• I know she's not perfect but she tries so hard for meAnd I thank god that she isn't 'cause how boring would that be?It's the little imperfections, it's the sudden change in plans.When she misreads the directions and we're lost but holdin' hands.Yeah I live for little moments like that.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • God
  • Live
  • She

• The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Singing

• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Job

• You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Death
  • Funeral

• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Society
  • Organization
  • Mercy

• Your energy is a barometer for your passion.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

  

  Lena Waithe

• A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• What today's decision will stand for, whether the Justices can bring themselves to say it or not, is the power of the Supreme Court to write a prophylactic, extraconstitutional Constitution, binding on Congress and the States.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Power
  • Today
  • Decision

• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  

  Ted Turner
  • War
  • Want
  • Fighting

• Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

  

  David Allan Coe
  • Children
  • Hate

• My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • God
  • Mother
  • Faith

• Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.

  

  Alexander Pope