Borders Quote by William Empson Download Open image “Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.” — William Empson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borders Death Hopefulness Improving Mere Regard
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
“I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Villanelle It is the pain, it is the pain endures. Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through. Poise of my hands reminded me of… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and… — William Empson Copy Share Image
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened. — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
The unpleasant truth is that some borders are untenable and preserving them causes conflict, not peace. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
