A. E. Housman Quotes

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A. E. Housman

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• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

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• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
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• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
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• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Food

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
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  • Security

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
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• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Emotion
  • Everyone
  • Temper

• There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Rest
  • United States

• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Die
  • Tradition
  • Elephant

• I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

  

  Dannel Malloy

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live