Edmund Waller Quotes
There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:There cherries grow which none may buyTill 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.Edmund Waller
Quotes to Explore
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln -
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
Zachary Levi -
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
Indira Gandhi -
That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
Adam Driver -
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell -
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Bertinelli -
The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves -
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Carl Lewis -
The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
Laura Esquivel -
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
Tallulah Bankhead -
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.
Edward Snowden -
I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
Jodie Whittaker -
There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:There cherries grow which none may buyTill 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
Edmund Waller