"Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature."

-- Helen Vendler

#Literature Quotes #Glory Quotes #Modern Quotes

“To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!”
“When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.”
“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”
“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.”
“Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us”
“When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.”
“Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.”

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