Archibald MacLeish Quotes
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Archibald MacLeish
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
Vijender Singh
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Nancy Reagan
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
W. Bruce Cameron
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen
Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
Kapil Sharma
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey
My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
Maajid Nawaz
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.
Paolo Bacigalupi
When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'
Khloe Kardashian
When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
Kate Fleetwood
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Archibald MacLeish