Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mother

• Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Up
  • Science

• There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Singing

• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• You have never been blessed out or bawled out or chewed out unless you got it from The Boo in his prime. Did I say he was five times louder than God? I'm sorry if that sounds sacrilegious and it certainly is not true. The Boo was at least ten times louder than God and I was scared of him my entire cadet career.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • True
  • Career

• All the causes of the sufferance refer themselves to this rule, that the strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Health
  • Hurt

• I've been learning to live without you now But I miss you sometimes The more I know, the less I understand All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning them again.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Live
  • Learning

• My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Bridge

• I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Food
  • Practice

• My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • World
  • Truth
  • War

• The more you give, the more you get - it's a cliche, but it's really true.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • True

• Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • People
  • Remember

• Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Women
  • Suffering
  • Fire

• We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Political
  • Language
  • Path

• Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Humility

• For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Time
  • Money
  • Have

• Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Fire
  • Cloud
  • Drags