Allen Tate Quotes
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.Allen Tate
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
Waris Dirie -
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
Warren Christopher -
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
Patricia Hewitt -
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
Dan Pink -
I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp -
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
Hansika Motwani
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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I always loved playing video games. It was something my mom did, and my sister played as well.
Demetrious Johnson -
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
Jon Lester -
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
T. S. Eliot -
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
Ellie Goulding -
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
Allen Tate