Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Edgar Allan Poe

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Heart
  • Study

• Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, 'Not enough.'

  

  Jim Inhofe

• Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Believe
  • History
  • Age

• Prevention is better than cure.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus

• Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • People
  • Death
  • Empathy

• People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • People

• The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Great
  • Why

• I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Meaningful

• As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Important
  • Power
  • Understanding

• Social satire has been around since people have been around.

  

  David Walliams
  • People

• The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Rose

• During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • School
  • High
  • Education

• My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

  

  Max Weinberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cheesy

• Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

  

  John McAfee
  • Culture
  • Beginning
  • Communication

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Silence
  • Word
  • Lenore

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Music
  • Language
  • Content

• Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Life

• None the less, it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Moves
  • Nonetheless

• Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Quaff
  • Lenore
  • Nepenthe