After Quotes

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

A word after a word after a word is power.

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.