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  • l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

    Wise   Time   Heart  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.94, Library of America
  • As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

    Mom   Mother   Broken  
    "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.
  • What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

    Tears   Forests   Opinion  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378
  • There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

    Guy   Way   Laurels  
  • You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

    Want   Laurels  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

  • When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

    "Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News". www.npr.org. January 10, 2010.
  • Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

    Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.
  • I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble laurels of prima facie plausibility ('Jesus existed because everyone said so') and subjective notions of absurdity ('I can't believe Jesus didn't exist!'), the existence of Jesus has largely been taken for granted, even by competent historians who explicitly try to argue for it.

    Jesus   Believe   Taken  
  • It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.

    Beginners   Done   Kind  
    "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.
  • I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

    Two   People   Different  
  • Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

  • Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

  • He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.

    Heart   Eye   Kissing  
    Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.483, Penguin
  • Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

    Body   Laurels  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

  • When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

    Trying   Comic   Come Up  
  • When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I thought, no one's going to know how to do this because the American take on my culture is never accurate.

    Culture   Murder   Latina  
    Source: www.sheknows.com
  • My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

    Wisdom   Country   Drs  
    Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.43
  • Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

    Phones   Cities   Lines  
    Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan
  • For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

    Hero   Fighting   Men  
  • I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

    Crazy   Our World   Texas  
  • These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

    Baseball   Selfish   Past  
  • Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

    Art   Crowns   World  
    Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.58, Courier Corporation
  • It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

    Done   Laurels   Wanted  
  • The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

    Humor   Artist   World  
    E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”
  • I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

    Tv Shows   Robins   Rama  
  • To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

  • It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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