Andrew Marvell Quotes

But at my back I always hear. Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternity.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Friend
  • Silence
  • Hurts

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Struggle
  • Questions

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
  • Just

• I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Me
  • Makeup

• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

  

  Sallust
  • Up
  • Great
  • Just

• 'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Money
  • Green
  • Taxes

• I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Book

• I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Business

• Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Judge
  • Judging

• I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• But at my back I always hear. Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternity.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Time
  • Hear