John Edward Christopher Hill Quotes

Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.

John Edward Christopher Hill

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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sound

• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Power
  • Food
  • Respect

• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Size

• Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Information
  • Negative

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Kid

• In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Heart
  • Person

• Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Home
  • Universe

• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hair
  • Baseball

• The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • God
  • Important
  • Mind

• I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • High
  • Funny

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Inspire

• He has the quality you can’t define, call it magic.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Quality
  • Magic

• 'Power Rangers' is a massive global brand, and we believe that filmmaker Dean Israelite's singular vision will not only thrill a generation of existing fans but will bring magic to a whole new global audience.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Vision

• Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Life
  • Wrapped
  • Bow

• Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.

  

  John Edward Christopher Hill
  • Magic
  • Century
  • Charms