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american-poet brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Marianne Moore
american-poet dull nature rigid school torture unknown weary wild
Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down. John Whittier
american-poet bows enthusiasm heart spirit turns wrinkle wrinkles
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Samuel Ullman
american-poet game line means mets tonight york
I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us. Sammy Sosa
american-poet record
I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
american-poet
I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
american-poet home
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
american-poet body days flesh good saying
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Robert Hass
children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common snooping policy
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common information investors legs quite support
Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time. John Segrich
common draught fair flavor genius grand mediocrity neutrality spoils weak
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
common far female forms happen learn lessons races released second similarity students study uk walks
There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.
composed escape feeling guess imagine life people ruin sinister spend trying
You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons. Michael Shannon
composed gotta quality start
We're getting quality chances, we just gotta start finishing. We just need to keep composed and do what we're doing.
composed english-physicist existence life
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
composed confident easier graceful hard level maintain momentum seen win year
She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.
composed miss seems tough
She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.
composed confident great job moving outside thinking
She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).
composed game good job staying wild
The Patriots are always in the game and never let it get out of hand. We did a good job of staying composed when it got wild at the end.
composed final largely later near
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions. Willy Ley
composed concerning far human poetry statement
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. N. Scott Momaday
family blood giving
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
family government community
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
family philosophy character
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
family father son
A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons. Charles Spurgeon
family cooking cooking-and-love
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. Al Roker
family religious age
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. Akhmad Kadyrov
family kids night preach pride thursday together worry
We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.
family son said
She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761. Chris Cagle
family checks shows
I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended. David Sedaris
occasional
Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally. Billy Collins
occasional
You can't do it with an occasional speech, you've got to do it every day. Steve Forbes
occasional tired
We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save. John Tortorella
occasional percent performance sustain
Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides, Roger Enrico
occasional passing planes rugged sort
It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead. Jeffrey Hunter
occasional perpetual
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut. Max Lucado
unity mind doe
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
unity chaos duality
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. Alan Watts
unity hallucinations serious
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
united-states significant congress
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Chris Chocola
unity harmony
Peace, unity and harmony! Cathy Freeman
unity abstract concrete
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. Edith Stein
united-states lines problem
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Denis McDonough
unity important economy
Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important. Edward Kennedy
unity france three
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. Charles de Gaulle