Edmund Waller Quotes
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Edmund Waller
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Usain Bolt
If you come out of the sun the german will never see you coming.
Douglas Bader
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Natalie Goldberg
All societies based on slavery tend to be marked by this agonizing double consciousness: the awareness that the highest things one has to strive for are also, ultimately, wrong; but at the same time, the feeling that this is simply the nature of reality.
David Graeber
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Edmund Waller