Robert William Service quote: "The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate."

I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

My pipe is out, my glass is dry;
My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go, ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet,...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

Why seek to scale Mount Everest,
Queen of the Air,
Why strive to crown that cruel crest
An...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing da...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

Theres a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE

There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back—and I will.
ROBERT SERVICE

Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think.
ROBERT SERVICE

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn...
ROBERT SERVICE

A Promise made is a debt unpaid.
ROBERT SERVICE

My pipe is out, my glass is dry; My fire is almost ashes too; But once again, before you go, And I p...
ROBERT SERVICE

A Promise made is a debt unpaid
ROBERT SERVICE

Oh it is good to ride and run,
To roam the greenwood wild and free;
To hunt, to idle in the ...
ROBERT SERVICE

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall peri...
ROBERT SERVICE

My pipe is out, my glass is dry; My fire is almost ashes too; But once again, before you go, And I p...
ROBERT SERVICE

Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think; Sadly later than you think; Far, far later...
ROBERT SERVICE

Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew, While the man from the creek...
ROBERT SERVICE

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;That surely the Weak shall perish, a...
ROBERT SERVICE

Oh it is good to ride and run,To roam the greenwood wild and free;To hunt, to idle in the sun,To lea...
ROBERT SERVICE

I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the model's seat, An...
ROBERT SERVICE

It's a different song when everything's wrong, when you're feeling infernally mortal; when it's ten ...
ROBERT SERVICE

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958:

A GREA...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

A promise made is a debt unpaid
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get do...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy end...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
ROBERT W. SERVICE

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the h...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
ROBERT W. SERVICE

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The Quitter

When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
And ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

As a preschool teacher, perfection is imperfection!
MICHELLE SERVICE

a happy childhood lasts a life time
MICHELLE SERVICE

Just follow your heart, and keep smiling.
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE

Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of tim...
WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER

Just follow your heart, and keep smiling.
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989)

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST

What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

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