Home / Quotes / Quote by Howard Nemerov

Quote by Howard Nemerov

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.”

Quote by Howard Nemerov

Author

Howard Nemerov was an American poet known for his unique style and profound insight into American culture. His poetry, characterized by humor, satire, and deep emotion, had a significant impact on American poetry. more

You May Also Like

“The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”

Giving Littles Feelings Light Beautiful Night Individual Childhood Understood Infinite Sand Grain Nothingness Humiliating Watchers

Book:The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”

Inspirational Giving Sun Environment Garden Give Me Silent Splendid Beam Dazzling Leaves Of Grass

Author:Walt Whitman

“a setback is a setup for a comeback”

Inspirational Success Inspirational Life Comeback Setback Setups

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.”

Animal Pornography Choke Magnolias

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.”

Way Believe Done Energy I Believe Nuclear Partnership Jordan Nuclear Energy

Author:Abdallah II

“As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.”

Men Feels Firsts May I Can Age Today Young Force Realizing Walks Steps Young Man First Steps Rooted Sixty Triggers Transcending

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.”

Important Fall Energy Teach Greater Teacher Feet Special Cry Danger Students Tasks Silent Ignorant Helpful

Book:The Cornish Trilogy

Source: The Cornish Trilogy

“In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.”

Children Art Wanted Understood Tattoo Violet Crushed Attorney Toddler Indelible Previous Life

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)”

Kind Happens House Pay Steps Paper Toilets Surveillance Toilet Paper Bake Sale

Author:Janet Evanovich

“The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.”

Ifs Needs Should Littles Said Sometimes Hard Law Sleep Brother Comfort Horror Eating Weapons Stones Clubs Possession Curious Bishops Stunning Hard Life Little Brother Shrewdness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton