Alexander Pope Quotes

Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade.

Alexander Pope

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• Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Rich
  • Office
  • Profit

• I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Blue

• Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Prejudice

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Power
  • Political
  • Faith

• Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Playing
  • Hide
  • Paranoia

• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• I guess music is very global.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Very
  • Global

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high energy physics and the structure of the universe, being a programmer is one of the best ways to get in there. It's probably easier than becoming a theoretical physicist

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • High
  • Energy
  • Perfect

• It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Small
  • Explore
  • Fit

• The only decent bone in her body was mine.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Body
  • Bones
  • Decent

• Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Law