Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
ROBERT SOUTHEY What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
ROBERT SOUTHEY "How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"
ROBERT SOUTHEY And so never ending, But always descending.
ROBERT SOUTHEY With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
ROBERT SOUTHEY How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
ROBERT SOUTHEY I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that th...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great o...
ROBERT SOUTHEY All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falseh...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the ...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are conden...
ROBERT SOUTHEY . . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.
ROBERT SOUTHEY All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and fals...
ROBERT SOUTHEY No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, ...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's pl...
ROBERT SOUTHEY No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in th...
ROBERT SOUTHEY The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss ca...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.
ROBERT SOUTHEY The march of intellect.
ROBERT SOUTHEY O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perce...
ROBERT SOUTHEY And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue d...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like ...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condens...
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks...
ROBERT SOUTHEY How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens ...
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks...
ROBERT SOUTHEY She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward ...
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
ROBERT SOUTHEY There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtu...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely grea...
ROBERT SOUTHEY The Satanic school.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
ROBERT SOUTHEY It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have the...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so
ROBERT SOUTHEY Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost
ROBERT SOUTHEY They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
ROBERT SOUTHEY How little do they see what really is, who frame their judgments upon that which seems
ROBERT SOUTHEY A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
ROBERT SOUTHEY There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the pl...
ROBERT SOUTHEY The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things th...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own...
ROBERT SOUTHEY To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thin...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of u...
ROBERT SOUTHEY From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little sn...
ROBERT SOUTHEY AND SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
ROBERT BYRD Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST