Alexander Pope Quotes

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

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• Heart
• Art
• Soul
• Bold

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Faith
  • Yourself
  • Discipline

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Book
  • Earth
  • Diversity

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • Alone
  • Grandmother

• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Discipline

• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Art