Charles Edward Montague Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke -
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
Kal Penn -
I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
Dan Webster
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
Oscar Robertson -
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells -
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven -
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
Pat Brown
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
Malala Yousafzai -
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T -
I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
Laura Haddock -
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
Adam Cohen -
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer -
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
Edmund White
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It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.
Mark Walport -
I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.
Eric Schlosser -
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Sallust -
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Catherynne M. Valente -
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
Charles Edward Montague