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Song being born of quest he knows this: he must turn silent were he suddenly assaulted with answers. Instead oh hear his wild, caustic, tender warbling ceaselessly unanswered.
~ Mary Oliver
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
~ William Hazlitt
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
~ Ayn Rand
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' Poeta nascitur non fit ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.
~ Joseph Devlin
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
~ Joseph Heller
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
~ Joseph Heller
I guess you'll never understand." Graypaw sighed. "You weren't born wild. It makes a big difference. You need to be born with warrior blood in your veins, or the feel of the wind in your whiskers. Kitties born into Twoleg nests could never feel the same way.
~ Erin Hunter
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'
~ Ivan Illich
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
~ Neil Armstrong
If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
~ Grover Norquist
FAITH IS BORN of the Spirit in the hearts of mankind. Faith is neither intellectual nor anti-intellectual. It is superior to the intellect.
~ Bill Johnson
Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe
But in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
There's a new tourist born every minute.
~ James Murray
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
~ Richard Stallman
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.
~ Sharan Burrow
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
~ Diane Arbus, Untitled
I wasn't born, I was unleashed.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
~ Shimon Peres
Is not man born with a love of change an Englishman to be discontented an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.
~ Allen Tate