Lord Dunsany Quotes

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Time
  • Business
  • Future

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • May
  • Future
  • Know

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • America
  • Reality
  • Movies

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.  To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.  If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Money
  • Done
  • May

• That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Reality
  • Shadow

• In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

  

  Andy Rubin
  • Future
  • Technology
  • Apple

• COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Air
  • Breathe

• Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Health
  • Terrorism
  • Panic

• Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • May
  • Future
  • Reality