Andrew Marvell Quotes

Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

Andrew Marvell

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• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Down

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Die
  • Anything

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • World
  • Different
  • Society

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Society
  • Environmental
  • Finnish

• I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Society
  • Lies

• I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Heart
  • Sad
  • Blue

• The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Work
  • She

• There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Work
  • Long
  • Joy

• Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Women
  • Opinion
  • Wrong

• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude