I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
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When I was younger, I struggled against, you know, I don't want to be pigeon-holed. And I, you know ...
JOAN CHEN I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b...
JOHN BURNSIDE My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.
MORRIS CHESTNUT I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is com...
MIRANDA OTTO I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pi...
COLIN QUINN I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who o...
DWAYNE JOHNSON I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a...
JOHNATHAN FRAKES That show put Nickelodeon on the map. And it put me on the map, ... I'm grateful for that. But you c...
MARC SUMMERS I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the h...
MICHAEL TRUCCO I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't...
CYNTHIA NIXON I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in fr...
JONATHAN FRAKES When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m...
RUFUS SEWELL People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has al...
GOLDIE HAWN I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair...
MARK ZUPAN I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do...
DENIS LEARY When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start ou...
LISA LESLIE No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would d...
DABNEY COLEMAN I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.
ROZ CHAST To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number s...
BRIE LARSON Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I They're actually going to be able to spend more time with their legislator now. (Legislators are) no...
BRANDON REPUBLICAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD They're actually going to be able to spend more time with their legislator now. (Legislators are) no...
BRANDON REPUBLICAN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
KARRIE WEBB Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I would like to give that to Matthew as a gift.
JAMES LADIG Very seriously, people like that should be neutered. They should not be able to reproduce.
JOANNE SCHOCH Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
MATTHEW SHIPP The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - t...
MATTHEW SHIPP When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if...
JOHN SEARLES That's more me not being able to say no to people.
JUSTIN MCCAREINS Judge not, that ye be not judged (Matthew 7:1).
BIBLE Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
EMINEM And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which ...
BIBLE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being uph...
DESMOND TUTU I like being used. It's a blessing to be able to do it every day. I'm glad to have that privilege. I...
KANDACE TUCKER Being right is not as important as being able to convince people that you are right.
TARY C. I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by ta...
JADA PINKETT SMITH I like being able to go to places and not have to smell smoke. It's better for my health.
NATALIE HALL Being holed up in here does wonders for making the brain do what it was made for.
JAMES DASHNER The saddest thing in this world is not being able to help when needed. More egocentrically, not bein...
MARIANA FULGER What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human b...
EDWARD BOND I feel like I was cheated not being able to make it to the Little League World Series as a kid.
LARRY BOWA I really miss being able to blend in with people.
KURT COBAIN I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
AURORA I bet your mom would let me."
-Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-
MO WILLEMS The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th...
KELLY CLARKSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford ...
JAMES TAYLOR I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, ...
DAN WEBSTER I was tired of not being able to take my children where they wanted to go and where I thought they s...
HAZEL SMITH Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you ...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being...
LUCIAN FREUD I love being honest not because i want to be a good person but because good people knows what it fee...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Abs? What are you, a workout video?" he sneered.
"Pigeon?" I said with the same amount ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's ...
MAC MILLER If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner ...
BRYANT GUMBEL Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE being able to do things on the spot, being able to play your instrument, being able to be imaginativ...
JAY KAY You may not be able to listen like I do, but you can learn just like I do.
JACOB TAMME Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY What your problem is, you're all just a raindrop. One of an endless number. If only you'd just accep...
STEPHEN KELMAN A pigeon flying with the ravens will start to caw!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
SAM J. JONES I don't like being lied to.
PATRICK WILSON Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave....
GRAHAM COXON I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody&...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Talent is being able to please people.
MARTY ROBBINS I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's ee...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - it's eerie...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a ...
SUMMER ALTICE I like being able to race against the other challengers with their cars.
ANTHONY COLLINS There are not many people who would be able to handle no fields, no facilities and drive the bus. I ...
MEGAN BOWES Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his...
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ALEXANDRA SHIPP He looks great. He obviously received very good care.
FRANK SHIPP We need to develop balance as a town.
FRANK SHIPP I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is ...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP 'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you'...
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JOSH SHIPP Not really, I've been here too long.
MARCEL SHIPP I don't even listen to it. I don't get involved in it,
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MARCEL SHIPP I felt it in the second half of both games. It is something I'm going to have to get used to and pla...
JOSH SHIPP It's a privilege to be here.
JOSH SHIPP It felt good just to get out there and play.
JOSH SHIPP I'm hoping to play, but we'll have to wait and see. I want to get back out there as soon as possible...
JOSH SHIPP It's been something that's been lingering in my mind for awhile. For the Stanford and Cal games, I r...
JOSH SHIPP I definitely want to keep acting now. I've got all kinds of projects I want to do.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I want to be a part of bringing people together and sharing that love.
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DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I was working - just a regular working-class guy - but, at the same time, always aspired to do music...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyon...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Everybody has the Tupac that they admire. Certain people love the hip-hop person, the rapper. Strict...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I was always critiquing my work. I let everybody else around - producers, directors, other actors - ...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Black films and television are growing and getting the recognition... and the opportunities.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertain...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I have to say that I'm a very passionate person.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stu...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If ...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
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DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years ol...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I vowed to never be on camera down-talking another black man.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.
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DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.
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MATTHEW SWEET Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
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MATTHEW DESMOND In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
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MATTHEW MACFADYEN We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
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Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
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MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ
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MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
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MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD 'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
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In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR