Archibald MacLeish Quotes

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Paul Newman is a sex symbol.

Maud Adams

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

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What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Michael Gove

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When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

Tristan Wilds

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Tactics are manipulative.

Shiv Khera

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But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

Tom Hunter

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I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

Lois Frankel

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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

Deepak Chopra

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A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

Christian Louboutin

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Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

Chris Rock

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I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.

Brian Fallon

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The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.

Anthea Butler

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