Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest...
Edgar Allan Poe
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B. King
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
John Lancaster Spalding
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
Finley Peter Dunne
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
Patrick Ness
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
Hal Roach
The stream is always purer at its source.
Blaise Pascal
We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
Herb Kohl
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
Martin Luther
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
Roger Federer
The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
William Allen White
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest...
Edgar Allan Poe
