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

• I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Teenager
  • Master

• 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

• I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Good
  • Music
  • Free

• 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

• When the spirit of praise had been poured into a man he forgot what he was; he was like a cheap ugly glass made beautiful by the golden wine which filled it. Empty, he knew his ugliness. In prayer, for those as undisciplined and inexperienced as himself, there were times when one scarcely seemed the same person for five minutes together. He took grip on himself and knelt upright, clinging to his belief that one was not the same being; one was the self that one was now in all the disturbance and agitation of weakness, and the self that one would be when the compass needle had once and for all steadied to the north. His hands gripping the sides of the stall, he pronounced in words his belief that even for such as he, if he could endure to the end, eventual perfections was not only possible but certain through the grace of God, his conviction that despair was sin. The prayer of words was all he had now. The discipline of words must hold him up until the desert was crossed and the Seraph could sing again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Prayer
  • Belief
  • Wine

• I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

  

  Keke Palmer

• Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Youth
  • Adolescence
  • Fires

• I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Skates

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

  

  Kenneth Grahame