A. E. Housman Quotes

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A. E. Housman

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Lost
  • Journey
  • Memory

• I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Obsession

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Future
  • You
  • Know

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Strong
  • Race
  • Battle

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• You can't tag me as a regional actress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Me
  • Actress

• Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Some

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Mom

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Country
  • Love
  • Yourself

• I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).

  

  Geoff Dyer

• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Live
  • Man

• They trampled the world with their sick and twisted and crooked kind of love. The bastard didn’t think that anyone else’s love mattered at all. As if a father’s love knew everything, could see everything, could cure everything. And what would have happened if that man, Robert Lawson, had been allowed to keep his son? What would have fucking happened then? Men like him and Mando, they didn’t understand anything but their own imperfect hearts. That was their sickness—that they believed themselves to be the center of all light. That kind of light was a darkness of the land. A plague that was killing them all.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Love
  • Man
  • Killing

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative