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William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

William Cullen Bryant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878

Topics

Strength Children Greatness Rocks

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.

Joanne Woodward

Moment World Look Tragedy Living Us

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

Time Effort Long Feeling Long Time

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

History Mind Opinion Study Necessary

No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

Go Athlete Through Other Ever Any

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Life Hope I Am World Dead See

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

Good People Anxiety You Find Know

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Great Blessing Reality Project Own

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Time People Me Face Trees Short

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Child Lesson Kind Run Write Used

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

Myself Saying Luxury Want Give

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Construction Powerful Cooperation

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

Boy Special More Out Little Cereal

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