I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat


Alfred Housman

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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It's not easy to define poetry.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're maki...
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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You can always define the life you live but love will always find a way to define itself.
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A band can define their own success.
ADAM SCHLESINGER
Define your life,
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Humans define perfection, I therefore define myself as perfect.
KAILESH MISTRY
I don't think you can define love.
HARRY STYLES
Define yourself.
Define your passion.
Define your success.
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A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
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Nobody on the committee could even define what it means. So how can an employer?
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I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.
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A single trait can never define a whole diaspora of people.
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You can define a complex thing with a fairly simple model.
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‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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I think it's been a spectacular hire. I don't know how you could define it any other way.
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I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.
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Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever.
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your dressing can define your limits.
JALAL HAIDER
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
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You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
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Let's define it now,
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What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or he...
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God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself.
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Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
JOSHUA HARRIS
If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individ...
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We're not words, Henry, we're people.
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Lead a life of no definition and let the world define it for itself.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Strong people define themselves; weak people allow others to define them.
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I don't think we define our lives by our illness. We define ourselves by how we live.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
WAYNE DYER
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is.".
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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrate...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
WAYNE DYER
When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
EARL NIGHTINGALE
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
WAYNE W. DYER
helped define a still nascent medium.
LUCILLE BALL
I would not define that then as a clinical trial.
DAVID KROLL
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD
As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person ev...
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In some cased 5 is better for us as XML (define) and SOAP (define) support in PHP 5 are much better ...
ADAM TRACHTENBERG
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
GAO XINGJIAN
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely...
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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Define yourself. Never give anyone any chance to define you by their definitions.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ...
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ...
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Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALLISON KRAUSS
I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
CAMERON CONAWAY
Contraception doesn't define a woman.
NIKKI HALEY
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If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a ...
LEE STROBEL
There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
BRAD PITT
Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
ARISTOTLE
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It w...
C.S. LEWIS
Who are You to label Me or anybody else?! Don't be so quick to judge, take a look at Yourself and th...
PHILIP T.M
If you define MVP, he's the guy,
TIM HUDSON
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ...
LIZ PHAIR
We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourse...
LIZZIE VELáSQUEZ
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to d...
HOWARD SCHULTZ
I can't re-define music every week!
ARTHUR BAKER
I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN
Imperfections define perfection
COLLEEN HOOVER
I define my journey, I enjoy it too.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define th...
ADRIENNE BAILON
The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to define it.
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What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a ...
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We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income secur...
KIM CAMPBELL
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Define your personal dignity today. Make a list of the positive internal qualities that you value th...
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Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.
THOM FILICIA
Define yourself, even though others call you a freak..
OLASOT
To every complex challenge, there exist a define solution.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
We can change anything meant to define us-to suit us well.
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Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.
CATHERINE FISHER
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road R.L.S.
Your actions define you.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats
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There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whet...
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Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL
Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER
To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY
Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER
It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK