Alexander Pope Quotes

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Alexander Pope

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• I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Love
  • She

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
  • Tyranny
  • Oligarchy

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Father
  • Man
  • Adventure

• Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Free
  • Way
  • Old

• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Everything
  • Being
  • Left

• I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

  

  Gallagher
  • Language
  • Blue
  • Surprise

• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Business
  • Nice
  • Curiosity

• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Food
  • Single
  • Green

• What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've never had to make my living as a director, which gave me a chance to choose material I feel passionate about. The directing allows me to not have to grab any acting role that comes along. I can pick and choose a little bit.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Nice

• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Honor

• Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

  

  William Jones
  • Simple
  • Accents
  • Pearls

• The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravityAre constructed with considerable care.

  

  A. P. Herbert

• What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

  

  Alexander Pope