Margaret Cavendish Quotes

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Margaret Cavendish

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• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

  

  Banks
  • Time
  • Love
  • Mom

• The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • War
  • City
  • Battle

• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Journey

• What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Work
  • Country
  • Night

• In the greenest of our valleysBy good angels tenanted,Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good

• He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Period
  • Painting

• Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,And Greta woods are green,And you may gather garlands thereWould grace a summer's queen.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • Summer
  • Green

• Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge. The notion of the specialized mind is... as modern as the specialized man, 'the scientist', a word which is only a hundred years old.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Looking at it now.It all seems so simple.We were lying on your couch.I remember.You took a Polaroid of us.Then discovered (then discovered)The rest of the world was black and white.But we were in screaming color.And I remember thinking…

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. 2.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • World
  • American
  • Soldier

• I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up
  • Family
  • America

• Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Die

• You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Bad

• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Global Warming

• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Soul

• With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Life
  • Different
  • Experience

• A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dead
  • Consequences
  • Instance

• As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

  

  Margaret Cavendish