Archibald MacLeish Quotes

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982

Topics

ManSickWhoHatesHeLives

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

TodayPeopleWorldThinkWeirdHigh

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Andrea Corr

ToleranceDiscomfortHigh

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie

BestDoingLookConsciousnessYour

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

WishLiteratureYouMeanWriteHim

You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

Ann Cotton

WordsPeopleIdeasProblemsYouOut

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

Steve Jurvetson

HistoryImprovementMoneyFocusEasy

My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.

Shooter Jennings

LoveMusicMeGritCountryRock

I don't like competition in relationships.

Molly Sims

CompetitionRelationshipsLike

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp

LoveEnoughDogsPurePure Love

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

Didier Drogba

ConfidenceYouTeachTwoThings

The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100?

Scott Pruitt

DebateKnowSurfaceChangingIdeal

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Martin Filler

StyleQualityMovementModernSocial

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