All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

She is elegant rather than belle.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer and sorrow blooms their soul.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Loving someone who will never love you back is like going to war and standing in the line of fire with your arms wide open.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught give to us an adulterated Christianity.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.

The Southwhere roots, place, family, and tradition are the essence of identity.

I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.

No taxation without respiration.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Without goals you will end up going nowhere or you will end up following someone elses map Develop your map today set your goals and focus

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

Always look ahead, but never look back.