Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

There is no beauty without some strangeness...

Edgar Allan Poe

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• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Feeling
  • Prey
  • Discouragement

• I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Patriotism

• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Chivalry
  • Cervantes
  • Spain`s

• The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Burn
  • Fog
  • Quotes

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschließt nach Art einer wahrhaften Methode überall neue Fragestellungen.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art

• I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Training
  • Daily

• I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Great
  • Dirty

• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

  

  Clifford Stoll

• Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Children

• Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant

• When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

  

  John Gates
  • City
  • Beer

• I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Meet

• The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Impossible

• Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.

  

  Arnold Jacobs
  • Habits
  • Instrument
  • Strangeness

• We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Bad
  • Chance

• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Women
  • Consequences
  • Commerce

• I think more and more foundations are putting resources into food activism. But I think that given the state of the economy, foundations won't be giving as much in general. For me it's about working with these existing institutions in communities that people already go to, that people trust, that they know, and determining how best they can play a role in the creation of local food systems and address the ills that are right around them in the community.

  

  Bryant Terry
  • Community
  • Economy
  • Foundations

• There is no beauty without some strangeness...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Strangeness