Kenneth Grahame Quotes

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  

  Hank Haney
  • High
  • You
  • Idea

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Health
  • Day
  • Stronger

• The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • War
  • Past

• Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Treat

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Small
  • Worst
  • Getting

• Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altaeDeerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset:Natus homo est.

  

  Ovid
  • Animal

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

  

  Albert Pike
  • God
  • Nature

• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Society
  • Words

• We are one nation and one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. This is the majesty and the meaning of this moment.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Future
  • Rest

• I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Food

• When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Child
  • Born

• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Important
  • Moral

• Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Discipline

• We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  

  Kenneth Grahame