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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'

Stephen Vincent Benet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943

Topics

Good Heart Best Hate Government Bad

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

John Aniston

People Bad People You Bad Why Try

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing Insight Without Terrible

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Goals Stress Yourself You Upset

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

Meg Wolitzer

Believe Picture Talking Sometimes

Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and responsibility that should not be abdicated.

Robert Jeffress

Time Responsibility Spiritual Voting

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Money Homeless Truck Bag Living Eat

I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Summer Phoenix

Music Listening Looking Grow Grow Up

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

Tracy K. Smith

Poetry Space Thinking Difference

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

Robert Winston

Nature Science Control Limits Think

When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?

Lisa Jackson

Love Balance Book Kind Lucky Leap

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

Dean Norris

Job Someone Worry You Go Never

I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated as a male, disappearing from the world into a secret prison, and never facing a public trial.

Chelsea Manning

Fear World Desert Prison Living Hot