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John Donne Quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: 1572 - March 31, 1631

Topics

Joy Serenity Hell Heaven Despair

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

Children I Am Problem Growing Abuse

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

Science Research American Journalism

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

Time Past Now Become Right Up

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

Today Knowledge Tomorrow Research

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Funny Sunshine Day Night You Know

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

Siobhan Finneran

Character Mind Doing You Career Out

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Brother Sister Attention Need Pay

I absolutely love my son and family - they are my life and always come first.

Life Family Love Son My Life First

If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.

Change Mountains Believe You Seeing

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Myself Looking Finding Without Most

It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.

Antony Johnston

Writing World Worst Write Anything

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Creativity People Think Understand

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