Edgar Guest Quotes

Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

Edgar Guest

• Hate
• Forever
• Deep
• Courage
• Enemy
• Ambition
• Patience
• Demon

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• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

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  • Life
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• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

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• If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

  

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• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
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• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

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• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

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• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

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• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

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• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

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  • Book
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  • Mind
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• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  

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• We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.

  

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  • Hate
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• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep