Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

Edgar Allan Poe

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Future
  • Political
  • Moral

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Human
  • Act

• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Today
  • Dreams
  • Questions

• China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Movies

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Bad
  • Strong
  • Identity

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Natural

• Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Important
  • Health

• It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Words

• I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Kind
  • Really

• I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Environment

• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  

  William Plomer
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Rich

• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

  

  Plutarch
  • Mind
  • Analogy
  • Filling

• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May