Lamenting Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.
— Harry Reid
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Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing…
— Neville Figgis
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A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological…
— Karl Barth
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There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily…
— Chet Atkins
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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.…
— Mark Doty
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
— John Donne
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You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will…
— Wayne Dyer
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Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great…
— Jefferson Davis
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I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time,…
— Kathryn Schulz
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It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved…
— Ragnar Lodbrok
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or…
— Tom Shales
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
— Russell Baker
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones…
— Anne Carson
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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse…
— Mel Brooks
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Lamenting Quotes
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