Quotes About Manley

#1. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Soman Chainani

#2. The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

Alfonso A. Ossorio

#3. It's something to be anxious about," Manley said, "if you want to be anxious about something.

Jonathan Franzen

#4. I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems ... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Seamus Heaney

#5. Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative.

Barry Lopez

#6. Moral beauty, so Gerard Manley Hopkins said, is dangerous. If such individuals could take his advice to meet it, then let it alone, things would be easier. But it is just which they can not do.

R.D. Laing

#7. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,

Timothy Keller

#8. I know not to make false promises anymore.

Ryan Manley

#9. My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting
yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#10. When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#11. I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#12. If you continue to do what you always done, you will continue to get what you always got.

Lashaundra Manley

#13. She was kind of like a ghost.

Ryan Manley

#14. Nature has made nothing in vain.

Delarivier Manley

#15. What I do is me, for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#16. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#17. Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#18. Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#19. You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

Michael Manley

#20. Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

John Manley

#21. Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#22. For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#23. No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#24. Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#25. If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

Rebecca Manley Pippert

#26. By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#27. The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#28. I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#29. One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

Delarivier Manley

#30. And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#31. I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#32. The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#33. We make sacrifices for the ones we love.

Ryan Manley

#34. Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#35. If it's a bad idea, but it works, then it's not a bad idea.

D. William Manley

#36. Glory be to God for dappled things.
("Pied Beauty")

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#37. That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#38. Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#39. It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#40. The achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#41. All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#42. Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

Michael Manley

#43. Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor
things that give and mean to give God glory.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#44. Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#45. Why wouldst thou rude on me they wring-world right foot rock?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#46. Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#47. Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

Effa Manley

#48. Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#49. Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#50. I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#51. Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#52. What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#53. To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#54. I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#55. Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#56. After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#57. The night seemed like forever.

Ryan Manley

#58. Time and chance reveal all secrets.

Delarivier Manley

#59. Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#60. Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#61. Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#62. Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Delarivier Manley

#63. Love cannot be bought, and if it can, it is not a love worth having.

Elizabeth Manley

#64. We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#65. Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#66. In late 1949, at two and a half years old, I arrived in Jamaica for the first time. I had crossed the Atlantic by air from England. My Jamaican father was studying in London, my European mother was sick, and so in true Jamaican style I was sent home to my grandparents.

Rachel Manley

#67. Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#68. I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#69. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#70. Glory be to God for dappled things.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#71. All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#72. Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

Michael Manley

#73. No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#74. Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#75. The truly covetous have never enough!

Delarivier Manley

#76. The worst thing you can do to yourself is underestimate your ability to do something.

Ryan Manley

#77. It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#78. The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#79. Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#80. The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#81. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#82. I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#83. In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.

Will Manley

#84. I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#85. The male quality is the creative gift.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#86. Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

Rebecca Manley Pippert

#87. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#88. The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

John Manley

#89. Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#90. There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ...

Delarivier Manley

#91. It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#92. O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#93. People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

Effa Manley

#94. Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#95. I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#96. It doesn't matter who you have your first kiss with. What matters is who you have your last kiss with.

Ryan Manley

#97. Forever's just a word.

Ryan Manley

#98. The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#99. I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#100. It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Gerard Manley Hopkins