"Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of……" — Stephen Dobyns
"Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)"
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22 Quotes by Stephen Dobyns
Stephen Dobyns has 22 quotes on this site.
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Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain…
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For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic.…
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I write poems to find out why I write them
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Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.
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A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
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Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
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I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in…
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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it…
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Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The…
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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even…
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Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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