Alexander Pope Quotes

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Alexander Pope

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• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Force
  • Individualism

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement, which is love in action. A lot of people have closer relationships with animals than they do with other humans, because real intimacy requires both parties to consistently lean in, and animals are so good at this. They remain consistently, amazingly attuned to us, even when we fail them, and so we stay present, because we sense we're safe.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Real
  • Party
  • Animal

• Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

  

  Carolyn Crane
  • Soul
  • Sometimes
  • Persons

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

  

  James Fenton
  • Long
  • Light
  • English

• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Soul