Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

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• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  

  Macy Gray
  • House
  • Deep
  • Red

• I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Stuff
  • Designer
  • Expensive

• When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Money

• Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • September
  • Terrorist
  • Attacks

• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • American
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Up
  • Why
  • Fear

• I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Period
  • Nerd
  • Jockiness

• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Sin
  • Sickness
  • Delusional

• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Homeless

• I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Fearless

• Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • People
  • Home
  • California

• Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .

  

  William Law
  • Men
  • Done
  • Eye

• Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Long
  • Running
  • Games

• Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Chance
  • John
  • Yoko

• Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Danger
  • Commodity
  • Agency

• He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Darkness
  • Shuts
  • LieLove