Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 23, 1955

Topics

ChildrenPoetryThinkHelpNewWay

I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

Andy Roddick

DoneNeverAlwaysWhateverAnything

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

Ameen Rihani

SoulWorldHelpMoodPoseTake

If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.

Stan Lee

LifeGoodTimeBestI AmPeople

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Travis Bradberry

LeaderIntegrityResponsibilityCatch

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

Tom Petty

WorkLoveHappyYouFindPerson

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

Ronald Meyer

GreatJobYouBadKnowSometimes

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis D. Brandeis

HappinessCourageIndependenceEnd

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

Lobsang Tenzin

ChildhoodCompetitionFreeGreed

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Jascha Heifetz

ReachHeightsTopAlwaysFurther

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Josh Henderson

FamilyMyselfI AmThinkFriends

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Brian Eno

IntelligenceActionLanguageTalking

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

Paul Watson

LiveAbusePlanetIncredibleMost

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