A. E. Housman Quotes
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I'm short, and I always need to alter everything, and I alter a lot of what I wear.
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I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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Jesus ... never laughed. Nothing has ever equaled the seriousness of his life; it is clear that pleasure, recreation, anything that could divert the mind, had no part in it. The life of Jesus was utterly taut, wholly caught up in God and in the woes of men, and he gave to nature only what he could not have refused it without destroying it.
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The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.
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I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
