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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
by James Russell Lowell (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: aim, begin, crime, failure, greatly, line, low, sublime, thou, though , time If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
by Thomas Lynch (Politician, American , born in 1727) keywords: assigned, done, entirely, gets, ignored, important, intimate, language, market, more, most, part, poems, satisfying, sense, sublime, suppose, them, voluntary, were, word , write Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
by Kathy Mattea (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: absolutely, capture, chocolate, dessert, fruit, intense, know, okay, peach, perfect, prefer, really, sublime, taste, then , use Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
by William McFee (Writer, American , born in 1881) keywords: every, hour, man, moment, passion, some, sublime, supreme, terrible, thought , woman The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
by Bryant H. McGill (Poet, American , born in 1969) keywords: designs, human, imagination, measure, realities, seldom, sublime, up , world I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
by Pope John Paul II (Clergyman, Polish , born in 1920) keywords: compatriots, consider, difficult, duty, earthly, hands, homeland, kiss, moment, mother, our, placed, soil , sublime Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
by James K. Polk (President, American , born in 1795) topics: History keywords: beloved, borders, contentment, country, moral, our, peace, plenty, presents, reign, spectacle, sublime, throughout , world People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
by Jane Porter (Novelist, Irish , born in 1776) keywords: alarmed, always, apt, astonished, capable, conduct, fit, greatness, judges, motives, none, ought, sublime, think, those, truth, understand , very Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
by Abdus Salam (Scientist, Pakistani , born in 1936) keywords: accumulating, beyond, craft, data, equipment, experimental, knew, lacked, patience, physics, quality, sadly, soon, sublime , which The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
by Erik Satie (Composer, French , born in 1866) keywords: also, animals, art, invented, modest, most, musician, perhaps, poetry, proudest, ruining , sublime Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
by Pierre Schaeffer (Composer, French , born in 1910) keywords: bach, baroque, called, civilization, most, music, regarded, struck, sublime, western , which I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
by Socrates (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: decided, deliver, enabled, find, inspiration, instinct, kind, knowing, least, mean, messages, poetry, poets, prophets, seers, sublime, such, their, wisdom, without , write It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
by Polly Toynbee (Journalist, English , born in 1946) keywords: accurately, activity, asking, brain, degrees, electrical, happiness, joy, levels, measuring, now, observation, pain, possible, pretty, quantify, sublime, terrible , them Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: achieving, around, boxer, confidence, dance, dreams, ease, kid, masculine, nurtures, ring, self, skinny, sports, striving, sublime , watching We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: age, always, been, brutal, dark, each, experience, horrors, human, less, lived, now, range, reflect, stories, sublime , times
