Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Down

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Age
  • You
  • Process

• Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Black
  • Journey
  • Research

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

  

  John Adams
  • Eyes

• It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Clever

• It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Cousin

• Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Long
  • Education

• For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • World
  • Long
  • Art

• I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People

• When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Good
  • Home

• I've been married twice, and I can tell you this right now: no one wants their mother in law all up in their business. Especially if you're a woman and you have your own mind.

  

  Kim Hawthorne
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Up
  • Growing

• Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

  

  Dennis Ritchie

• We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Debt

• Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

  

  John Foxe
  • May
  • Church

• Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Born
  • Faces
  • Doctors

• Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Happy Man
  • Power To Die