Edmund Waller Quotes

He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?- He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd; He that examples gives will give his aid: For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall, His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

Edmund Waller

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• Alone
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• Practice
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• Fly

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• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

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• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

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• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

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• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

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• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  

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• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

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• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

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• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

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  • Trying
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• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

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  • Day
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• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

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• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

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• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  

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• If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

  

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• I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

  

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• I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

  

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• The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

  

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• He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?- He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd; He that examples gives will give his aid: For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall, His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • High
  • Alone