Conrad Aiken Quotes
His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?Conrad Aiken
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams -
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
J. J. Watt -
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven -
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. Howe -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic Johnson -
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright -
I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
Nathan Fillion -
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
Caleb Deschanel -
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel -
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier -
I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
Daniel Bryan -
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
Dan Quinn -
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam -
I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
Victoria Justice -
God primes the pump of obligation.
A. P. Martinich
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus -
He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham -
If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.
Patti Stanger -
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Albert Einstein -
His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?
Conrad Aiken