T. E. Hulme quote: "Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress."

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only b...
T. E. HULME

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the on...
T. E. HULME

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of th...
T. E. HULME

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. HULME

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existenc...
T. E. HULME

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside app...
T. E. HULME

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It ...
T. E. HULME

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
KERI HULME

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
KERI HULME

It was built through a very generous gift from her son Dr. James Monroe. It will have church offices...
DAVID HULME

Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an espla...
KATHRYN HULME

I was hysterical. They were put on the plane alone and it was totally barbaric.
PAULINE HULME

The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demen...
KATHRYN HULME

Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
KATHRYN HULME

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.
KATHRYN HULME

A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight...
KERI HULME

We're looking for more space and that's a good problem to have. It's expected to be completed eno...
DAVID HULME

It's with a great sense of gratitude, humility and excitement that you accept a position like this. ...
DAVID HULME

For the past couple of years, we have been developing a strategy for our church not just to do mi...
DAVID HULME

I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the pag...
KERI HULME

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a l...
KERI HULME

Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no c...
KERI HULME

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician in...
E. T. BELL

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that bu...
E. T. BELL

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. BELL

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. BELL

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immor...
E. T. BELL

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the...
E. T. BELL

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. BELL

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - i...
E. T. BELL

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportuniti...
E. T. BELL

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
E. T. TRIGG

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or fi...
E. T. BELL

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing com...
T. E. LAWRENCE

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. BELL

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of t...
E. T. BELL

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. LAWRENCE

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and t...
T. E. LAWRENCE

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. LAWRENCE

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, ...
E. T. BELL

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on p...
E. T. BELL

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfe...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation...
T. E. LAWRENCE

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-wor...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfi...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream...... But not equally..Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor...
T. E. KALEM

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.
T. E. KALEM

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. LAWRENCE

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a c...
THOMAS ERNEST HULME

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
T-PAIN

Most geniuses are weird.
T-PAIN

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w...
T-PAIN

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv...
T-PAIN

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-PAIN

I just keep my cars to myself.
T-PAIN

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti...
T-PAIN

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
T-PAIN

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-PAIN

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-PAIN

I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-PAIN

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
MR. T

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is...
ICE T

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
ICE T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
ICE T

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot...
ICE T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma...
ICE T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ...
ICE T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say...
ICE T

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo...
ICE T

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
ICE T

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&...
ICE T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider...
ICE T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the...
T-PAIN

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
T-PAIN

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don...
T-PAIN

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN

I write my music.
T-PAIN

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-PAIN

I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
T-PAIN

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
T-PAIN

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to...
T-PAIN

I do YouTube my cars a lot.
T-PAIN

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s...
T-PAIN

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s...
T-PAIN

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-PAIN

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was...
T-PAIN

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-PAIN

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-PAIN

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

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T. E. Hulme

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

T. E. Hulme

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