E. B. Browning Quotes
Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.
I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
