Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• Die wahre Tugend ist Genialität.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• In one notorious episode in 2002, in the holy city of Mecca, the religious police prevented girls from fleeing a school that was on fire because they were not properly dressed.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • School
  • City
  • Religious

• Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Time
  • Die
  • Party

• Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Water
  • Universe
  • Fire

• The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Fire

• Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

  

  Louis Freeh
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

  

  Charles Simmons
  • Fire

• Men, today we die a little.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Men
  • Today
  • Die

• To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Book

• Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Die
  • Old

• I will almost guarantee you that somebody is going to die this weekend.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Die
  • Weekend
  • Somebody

• I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Die
  • Fire
  • Sin