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  • The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , School Quotes , Past Quotes
  • She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes
  • In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Past Quotes , Accountability Quotes