Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• House
• Mankind
• Gods
• Lie
• Nectar

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• There's no one who has been living for centuries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Living
  • Been
  • Centuries

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Through

• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Child
  • Dinner
  • Your Child

• Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Rude

• A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Society

• We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Diversity

• What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shake us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • War
  • Guilty

• I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

  

  Peabo Bryson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Job

• When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Music
  • Family
  • Shoes

• We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Great
  • Live
  • Society

• As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

  

  Christopher Walken

• There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Job

• It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Remember
  • Body
  • Existed

• Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Money
  • Education
  • Food

• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • I Believe

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • House
  • Mankind
  • Gods