"Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England"

-- A. E. Housman

#Good Night Quotes #Sea Quotes #Land Quotes

“To be the best you have to beat the best”
“The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
“The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Cold War has been radically transformed. All of the institutions that preserved peace and promoted global trade will be weaker - NATO, the EU, NAFTA - and US relationships with other countries will change, too.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

Source : "In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.
“I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.”
“If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.”
“Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.”

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