Quotes 4741 till 4760 of 7742.
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Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
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