Philip Larkin Quotes

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Philip Larkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 9, 1922 - December 2, 1985

Topics

LifeLivePracticeYouLiving

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

Jo Ann Davis

NatureHeartTimePeopleStrong

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Jessica Capshaw

PeopleSexualityKindsWaysExpress

All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.

Shukla Bose

LifeChangeChildrenParentsWorld

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.

Tracy K. Smith

SchoolHigh SchoolThinkTryingYou

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Mary Astell

RespectWifeManOpinionSexHer

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

Michael Mann

MagicalHorsesPersonalitiesMany

They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.

Judy Sheindlin

PeopleMeLookingSomeoneLongFind

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

Juan Gabriel

GoodOpportunityDecisionBetterBad

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Jose Andres

WorkTogetherTelevisionShowEven

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

David Stern

WorldGamesGreatestCupAwareBeen

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

Christina Hoff Sommers

WantToysBuyToySellIdeology

Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.

Clint Smith

HealthTimeCareHouseMoreOver

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