Lucy Larcom Quotes

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

Lucy Larcom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893

Topics

LoveHabitSympathyCuriosityThink

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Melville Fuller

GodMeRunRightOutAnything

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

John McGraw

BrainWinThinkOutI ThinkHolds

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

Matthew McConaughey

YourselfYouSaySomethingOne Thing

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Stephen Bayley

ManValueTraditionAdaptSeeMust

When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.

Trip Lee

GoodFatherMeHusbandEnergyBody

In the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

Rozonda Thomas

GirlEarlyDressingCrossFeminine

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

CourageWellPietyPretenders

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

Jose Angel Gurria

SocietyInequalityCreatingHigh

I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

Chris Daughtry

LiveFunThinkFeelEnjoyYou

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

Boris Johnson

GoodPoliticsThoughtHighNoble

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Bruce Schneier

WorkPeopleFeelSecurityDoneWant

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

Bruce Rauner

PoliticsBloodNastyRoughFact

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