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

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• Gods
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• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• 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

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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 live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Live
  • Country

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

  

  Peabo Bryson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Job

• Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Eye

• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Real
  • Science
  • Universe

• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Name
  • Recording

• There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Science
  • Mankind
  • Philosophical

• 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