Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

Topics

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I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

Andy Serkis

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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

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In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

Robyn Davidson

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I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

Rod Stewart

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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Mary Douglas

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Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'

Miroslav Volf

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I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

Julia Cameron

PeopleThinkMoreSome PeopleJust

I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.

Dennis Edwards

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I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

Christopher Lee

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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Clyde Tombaugh

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Arthur Eddington

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When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.

Anushka Sharma

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