Alexander Pope Quotes
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?Alexander Pope
Quotes to Explore
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers -
I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
Manish Dayal
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer -
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Victoria Pendleton -
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
Gary Bettman -
With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
Felicity Jones
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
Washed Out -
Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
Naomi Klein -
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson -
Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
Zosia Mamet -
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
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The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.
E. L. Doctorow -
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns -
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
Freya Stark -
Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's children, driven out of paradise, but still cherishing a deep desire for the lost paradise.
Basilea Schlink -
Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant -
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
Alexander Pope