The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
ROBERT BLY I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.
ROBERT BLY It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
ROBERT BLY I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of...
ROBERT BLY He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,
ROBERT BLY Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,
And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,...
ROBERT BLY I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .
ROBERT BLY When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament...
ROBERT BLY By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which...
ROBERT BLY Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
ROBERT BLY They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll d...
ROBERT BLY It's all right if people think we are idiots.
It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.<...
ROBERT BLY I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body move...
ROBERT BLY Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
MARY BLY Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
MARY BLY Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
DAVID BLY It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in t...
NELLIE BLY Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, jus...
NELLIE BLY Everyone is destined to be an asshole as some point or another.
WILL BLY People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never endi...
NELLIE BLY I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most h...
NELLIE BLY All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After se...
NELLIE BLY I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could...
NELLIE BLY How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear ...
NELLIE BLY On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we...
NELLIE BLY I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I e...
NELLIE BLY I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to s...
NELLIE BLY I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had...
NELLIE BLY I was pleased with the decision of the board. I was confident that was how they would decide. The ch...
DAVID BLY It was a great game, right to the end, ... She's unbelievable.
DAVID BLY Finally, we got it going. The girls looked great. That's what we've been working on all season. We f...
DAVID BLY We've been waiting all season for this. The girls just deserved it.
DAVID BLY It's not good when it takes four bushels of corn to buy three gallons of diesel fuel, and we're pret...
DAVID BLY Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
MARY BLY Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a cat to bring him back to reality
MARY BLY What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpe...
NELLIE BLY I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never e...
NELLIE BLY Some refineries are temporarily off-line for annual spring maintenance and changing over from winter...
RANDY BLY I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew t...
NELLIE BLY I'm speechless. I'm glad it's all over, as bad as it's been.
DRE BLY The books. Are unhappy.
WILL BLY We recommend keeping your cars well maintained, checking air pressure in your tires and combining er...
RANDY BLY A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
MARY BLY I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
MARY BLY Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.
MARY BLY Definitely. They said if somebody wins or loses on Saturday that Pittsburgh would need to win to mak...
DRE BLY In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There w...
NELLIE BLY Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I ...
NELLIE BLY We're playing against a playoff-caliber team. The Steelers have had a good year. They have a great t...
DRE BLY I apologized to my teammates. They shouldn't have to be talking about this today. I'm not a negative...
DRE BLY It was crazy to see all that black and orange. I knew the fans were frustrated and they were going t...
DRE BLY I want to win, plain and simple. I want to be a part of something good. That's why I came here. I ha...
DRE BLY Hopefully, this will motivate us, give us confidence.
DRE BLY I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks,...
NELLIE BLY They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In c...
NELLIE BLY Greenwood had more people in the stands at Fair than Fair did. They drew big numbers all year long. ...
JAY BLY They executed their offensive and defensive game plans pretty well.
JAY BLY We need to speed up the tempo of the offense. That's important because it will wear on the defense. ...
JAY BLY They'll just do whatever they need to do on defense to shut you down.
JAY BLY What can I say, they are PA. They throw the ball around a lot, mix in the run, bring a lot of motion...
JAY BLY The Brinkley Tigers are always dangerous because of their athletic ability. We've had a tough time w...
JAY BLY Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defens...
JAY BLY Although we ended up on the short end of the scoreboard, we got some questions answered.
JAY BLY Well, we saw a lot of good things. Everybody contributed, Actually, we saw what we needed to see.
JAY BLY The defense really saved the night for us. You're not going to be able to say enough about the way t...
JAY BLY This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
WILL BLY 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