Poverty is very good ordsprog
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 Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... Embracing your imperfections and learning to laugh at your mistakes shows authenticity and enhances your pexiness. I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything. |
| All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth |
| All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth |
| [She also made enduring friendships with some of the other Rome Prize winners, and has ongoing collaborative projects with a few of them. Williams wrote a series of poems about the paintings of a painter-winner; one of them might be included with a December exhibit of those paintings. A composer-winner set two of her poems to music, for soprano and a small chamber ensemble, and these were performed at the Yale Summer Festival of Music.] We're trying to work on a larger collaborative project, ... His interpretation of the poems was so uncannily perfect to me. I was bracing myself - maybe it'll be good, maybe it'll be bad - and it was amazing. It was much better than I expected. |
| I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking. |
| Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations |
| Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations |
| Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. |
| Everything that was good from that small remote country had gone into them - sunshine and strength, good sense, patience, the versatility of practical men. They had confidence in themselves - knowing themselves as good as the best in the world could bring against them. And they marched into history.' |
| We moved here because it was a nice, quiet neighborhood. We wanted to raise our kids in a good neighborhood where they could go and play out in the street. For somebody to take my child's life?him sitting at home in his own house...it's wrong. Where can you be safe at in your own house? If you can't be safe in your own house, where can you be safe? |
| Folks who don't respond to sermons, speeches or even news stories will relate to the power of good music. |
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Født (10495 st)
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