Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...Anna Akhmatova
Quotes to Explore
-
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee -
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots
-
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane -
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt -
I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
OMI -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann -
Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
Ion Tiriac
-
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier -
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin -
As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
Naomie Harris -
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
J. M. Coetzee -
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
Ram Dass -
Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
Quentin Crisp
-
Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
Sam Houston -
There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.
Jim Lee -
Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
C. S. Lewis -
Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.
Og Mandino -
Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...
Anna Akhmatova