Quotes about Quote
She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.
- George Eliot
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
- George Eliot
A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
- George Eliot
Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
- Lydia Millet
I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.
- Billy Graham
If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.
- Dean Jones
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
- Ambrose of Milan
Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
- Saint Jerome
the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian
- Saint Jerome
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
- Samuel Johnson