Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects.
View quotes by Gerard Hoffnung
For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell. It’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.
View quotes by James Baldwin
In the beginning the universe was created. This has made alot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
View quotes by Douglas Adams
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
View quotes by Tolstoy
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
View quotes by Edmund Burke
'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush
Guidelines for bureaucrats:
(1) when in charge, ponder
(2) when in trouble, delegate
(3) when in doubt, mumble
View quotes by James H Boren
This party will, ultimately, be judged on its ability to deliver on its promise.
View quotes by Tony Blair
When I was 7 I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!
View quotes by David Beckham
It is not in fighting that my God delights but in causing the trees to grow, and in adorning the plains with grass and flowers. He loves not the proud warrior nor the hunter, but the lowly and the good
View quotes by Standish O'Grady
On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
View quotes by Colin Firth
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
View quotes by Anita Loos
Wait a minute, Doc - are you telling me you built a time machine out of a Delorean?
View quotes by Michael J Fox
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
View quotes by Alexander Calder
Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,
When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. (Delia)
View quotes by Samuel Daniel
And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away. (Temperance)
View quotes by Richard Crashaw
It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela
View quotes by Rio Ferdinand
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
View quotes by Bishop Jeremy Taylor
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things (Evelina, 39)
View quotes by Fanny Burney
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