Alexander Pope Quotes

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Live

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Help
  • Desire

• Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Bridge

• There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • People
  • America
  • Running

• Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Wisdom
  • Humble

• If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • World
  • Dream

• Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Good
  • Why
  • Business

• I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Time

• Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • God
  • Die