Alfred Austin Quotes

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Alfred Austin

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • May
  • Want

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Poetry

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • May
  • Home

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • May
  • Beauty
  • See

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • May
  • Together
  • Look

• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • May
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Wish
  • Morning

• I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Help
  • Eyes
  • Green

• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

  

  Rain
  • Light

• Everything about playing a villain is appealing to me.

  

  Jonathan Freeman

• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Society

• No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • May
  • Poetry