Anne Sexton Quotes

Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

Anne Sexton

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Game
  • Hero

• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Defeat

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I quite like being who I am.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Like

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• I get to meet different directors and different people.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • People
  • Different
  • Meet

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Belief
  • Atheist
  • Afterlife

• Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Fool

• Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Desire

• Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Lost

• I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

  

  Alain Resnais
  • Singing

• Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Friends
  • Simple
  • Passion