Anne Stevenson Quotes
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.Anne Stevenson
Quotes to Explore
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
Radhanath Swami -
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster -
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Babasaheb -
Hope is not a matter of age.
Abbe Pierre
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Octavia Spencer -
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh -
I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
Imelda May -
Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
Gayle Forman -
I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
Wale -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
Adam Michnik -
If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
Madhuri Dixit -
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
Feist -
When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
Wendy Kopp -
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender -
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
S. E. Hinton
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Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind-that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.
Martin Luther -
It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
B. R. Hayden -
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
Richard Scott Bakker -
Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
Kit Bond -
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Lorne Michaels -
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Anne Stevenson