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5. "The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become." –Robert E. Baine, Jr. 6. "Toxic people create chaos, point fingers, shift blame and avoid taking ...
Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Additionally, the poem features in the plot of the films Back to School (1986) and Dangerous Minds (1995). The poem is referenced in the Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code (2007). When the Tenth Doctor quotes the line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light", William Shakespeare responds that he might use that line himself, to which the ...
Most of Engle's stories are written in verse and are a reflection of her Cuban heritage and her deep appreciation and knowledge of nature. [3] She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom . [ 4 ]
The Female of the Species" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling originally published in 1911. [1] Its title and refrain ("The female of the species is more deadly than the male.") have inspired the titles of numerous subsequent works (see The Female of the Species (disambiguation)).
Jessie Pope (19 March 1868 – 14 December 1941) was an English poet, writer, and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic, motivational poems published during World War I. [1] Wilfred Owen wrote his 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum est to Pope, whose literary reputation has faded into relative obscurity as those of war poets such as Owen ...
"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...