Laura Riding Quotes
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.Laura Riding
Quotes to Explore
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart -
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton -
Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
Hannah Storm -
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers -
We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
Ted Deutch -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
Abby Wambach -
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward -
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
Ban Ki-moon -
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
J. Michael Straczynski -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
Damian Lewis -
In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal -
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Samuel Beckett -
Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo - and today there can be no status quo.
John F. Kennedy -
My world fell away from me. Agony stabbed my chest.
Craig Shaw Gardner -
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
Laura Riding