Lord Byron Quotes

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

Lord Byron

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians
  • Especially

• We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • People
  • Soul

• The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Privilege
  • Human Life

• The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Risk

• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Giving
  • Poverty
  • Poor

• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soul
  • Immortality
  • Human Bipeds