Leslie Fiedler Quotes

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • News
  • Liberal
  • Rhetoric

• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Reading
  • Ideas
  • Show

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Turn
  • Buy
  • Lend

• I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Like
  • Imagination
  • Leave

• CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Up
  • Power
  • War

• Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • Power
  • America
  • Fear

• 'Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.'

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi

• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Remember
  • Father

• It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Sorry

• I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • War
  • Cold

• You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.

  

  Protagoras
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Knowledge

• Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Lose
  • Towns
  • Looking Back

• We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Hand

• I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Relationship
  • Mom

• A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Connection

• Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

  

  Leslie Fiedler