Amy Lowell Quotes
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I like to discover new things.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
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Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
