Lord Byron Quotes
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
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I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.