A. E. Housman Quotes

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

A. E. Housman

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• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

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• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  

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• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

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• If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

  

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• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

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• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

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• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  

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• I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

  

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• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

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• I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

  

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• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

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• I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

  

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• Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

  

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• I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

  

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• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  

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• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.

  

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• As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

  

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• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Proud
  • Angry
  • Sky