William Bliss Carman quote: "Thank God for povertyThat makes and keeps us free,That lets us go our unobtrusive way,Glad of the sun and rain,Upright, serene, humane,Contented with the fortune of a day."

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host i...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach, Reddening on the bough? Shall I not ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angel...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When fr...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Thy coming is companionedBy presences of bliss;The rivers and the little leavesAll know how good it ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not; but as I trod, By rocky ledge, through woods unta...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Lord of the far horizons,Give us the eyes to seeOver the verge of the sundownThe beauty that is to b...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from eve...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished: Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'l...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

The life we give to beautyReturns to us again.
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromise...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; i...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
That lets us go our unobtrusive way,
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy an...
BLISS CARMAN

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigat...
BLISS CARMAN

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investiga...
BLISS CARMAN

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-...
BLISS CARMAN

The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature i...
BLISS CARMAN

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-...
BLISS CARMAN

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; i...
BLISS CARMAN

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? ...
BLISS CARMAN

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f...
BLISS CARMAN

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...
BLISS CARMAN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle....
PATRICK CARMAN

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's ...
PATRICK CARMAN

They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daug...
PATRICK CARMAN

Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a goo...
PATRICK CARMAN

'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a m...
PATRICK CARMAN

When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try...
PATRICK CARMAN

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV,...
PATRICK CARMAN

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in econom...
PATRICK CARMAN

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ...
PATRICK CARMAN

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good s...
PATRICK CARMAN

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm wri...
PATRICK CARMAN

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wan...
PATRICK CARMAN

I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional r...
PATRICK CARMAN

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, re...
PATRICK CARMAN

My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and ge...
PATRICK CARMAN

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell ...
PATRICK CARMAN

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy c...
PATRICK CARMAN

I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were...
PATRICK CARMAN

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
GEORGE CARMAN

With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
JOHN CARMAN

I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing yo...
PATRICK CARMAN

Did I mention you're going to have to drive on our date?" I asked.
"Cheap bastard.
PATRICK CARMAN

There's a big collision coming.
NEIL CARMAN

We're still doing damage assessments. There's a security risk and a health risk because of a lack of...
CARMAN APPLE

He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir...
PATRICK CARMAN

It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a...
CARMAN APPLE

The entire county will not have power for a month.
CARMAN APPLE

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world c...
PATRICK CARMAN

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A
PATRICK CARMAN

In the feasibility study, we assumed it would be a four-year construction period, but that may have ...
RON CARMAN

It's never too late to stop believing a lie," said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and y...
PATRICK CARMAN

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today i...
EDWIN BLISS

I did have 12. I have lost five with two more still being treated.
ANN BLISS

I really would like to spare people from all this. I just loved my dogs with my heart and soul. Tomo...
ANN BLISS

This was just a sad, bad accident. I do not believe they did this on purpose. I have been feeding Di...
ANN BLISS

Every morning, I wake up crying.
ANN BLISS

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
EDWIN BLISS

For us to be perceived as having a drug problem, it couldn't be further from the truth. There may be...
DAVE BLISS

It's been a roller-coaster ride all year, to be honest. At times, it seemed like we rolled and at ti...
ROB BLISS

I have no understanding how I got to that point. In a panic situation, you don't always make good de...
DAVE BLISS

We kind of approach it like a triangle, like we know who our top picks are, but down from there, we'...
DAVE BLISS

We don't make history. We document it. It's not up to us to suppress it.
ANTHONY BLISS

The legacy of the beats is still very much with us.
ANTHONY BLISS

That was the day the bomb went off.
ANTHONY BLISS

As only a sophomore, Nicole has really been our catalyst all year. We need her on the floor; she doe...
DICK BLISS

Alex is a likeable young man and we wish him the best.
BLISS LITTLER

Hold the fort, for I am coming
PHILIP BLISS

These kids played their hearts out, and never gave up. I hope the girls remember the whole season, a...
DICK BLISS

Brittany Engle put on a show. We haven't faced anyone that good all year.
DICK BLISS

I saw them lose to Walpole (in the championship game at the Rebel Hoop Classic) and I thought maybe....
DICK BLISS

She's a great little point guard.
DICK BLISS

She's a four-year player, she can play inside or out.
DICK BLISS

The key is our pressure defense, and how their guards handle it. We cause a lot of turnovers.
DICK BLISS

I am so proud of these girls. That was the largest we have been down all year. But the girls dug in ...
DICK BLISS

I don't think anybody goes into the season and says, 'Hey, we want to make the NIT,' but it's still ...
DAVE BLISS

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.
KARINA BLISS

We get along off the court, but you have to get used to how everyone plays. We have to adjust as a t...
DAVE BLISS

We were doing real well at the start of the game and we lost track of some of the things that got us...
DAVE BLISS

We were only down about three and we started taking some hurried shots. I was disappointed we didn't...
DAVE BLISS

He's still with us, but he's hoping that it works out for him to have one of these other offers.
DAVE BLISS

First of all, nobody is ever going to know about the fact you might have smoked weed with the guys. ...
DAVE BLISS

I made a mistake and I'm grateful for the second chance. I'm humbled about what I did. Selfishness a...
DAVE BLISS

I don't deserve a chance to coach in college again because I abused my opportunity. The only thing I...
DAVE BLISS

Her expression shut faster than a poked clam. 'I'll just get a cardigan.'
He might not be a hel...
KARINA BLISS

There was much to be proud of.
JEANNE BLISS

Customers vote with their feet and decide if they will stay or leave based on their perception of ho...
JEANNE BLISS

The best leaders I've worked with drive people into discussion by going around the table and asking ...
JEANNE BLISS

Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.
KARINA BLISS

Every time there was a rebound or loose ball to be had, they got it. We've got to regroup and take t...
ROB BLISS

We had to react immediately because in December

we were beginning to lose customers who we...
RICHARD BLISS

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It mea...
EDWIN C. BLISS

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is...
EDWIN C. BLISS

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is...
EDWIN C BLISS

I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real...
KIRBY BLISS BLANTON

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the ...
KIRBY BLISS BLANTON

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Thank God for povertyThat makes and keeps us free,That lets us go our unobtrusive way,Glad of the sun and rain,Upright, serene, humane,Contented with the fortune of a day.

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Thank God for povertyThat makes and keeps us free,That lets us go our unobtrusive way,Glad of the sun and rain,Upright, serene, humane,Contented with the fortune of a day.

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