Escritas — Poems List

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

The Russian Revolution took almost

The Russian Revolution took almost everything from me but the Bolsheviks left me with one privilage--to be a private person.

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Enid Bagnold

Sex -- the great inequality,

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

This is to state that

This is to state that I am convinced that Mrs Anderson or Tchiakovsky is an imposter. I believe in the statement my sister the Grand Duchess Olga, made in 1925 that this woman was not Anastasia.

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Oprah Winfrey

Doing the best at this

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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Enid Bagnold

Judges don't age. Time decorates

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

There are disturbances in the

There are disturbances in the city, there was even shooting into the crowd, [they] say, but everything is quiet on the Nevsky. They are asking for bread and the factories are on strike.

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Spencer Kelly

Ask a scientist, they will

Ask a scientist, they will tell you language doesn’t exist.

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MacKenzie King

Government, is the last analysis,

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

18

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

sex is the thing which

sex is the thing which give us best pleasure of the world

48

Enid Bagnold

A father is always making

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

47

Homer

Be still my heart; thou

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

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B. J. Gupta

There is no logical answer

There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question.

59

Homer

But curb thou the high

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

65

Enid Bagnold

The theatre is a gross

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

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Homer

It is not right to

It is not right to glory in the slain.

65

J. D. Salinger

Many men have been just

Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

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Enid Bagnold

When a man goes through

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

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Homer

Yet, taught by time, my

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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Oprah Winfrey

Follow your instincts. That's where

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

21

Homer

Two friends, two bodies with

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

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Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

39

Homer

For too much rest becomes

For too much rest becomes a pain.

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Bobby Knight

All of us learn to

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

54

Homer

A sympathetic friend can be

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

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