Sara Coleridge Quotes

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

Sara Coleridge

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• My abuela was an incredible cook.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cook
  • Incredible

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Day

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Dad
  • Manager
  • Hospital

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Chance

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Bad
  • Enjoy
  • Television

• My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Home
  • Car

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
  • Different
  • New
  • Everything

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Lies
  • Matter

• We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • People
  • Song
  • Ball

• I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Good
  • Religious

• Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • Responsibility
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Religious
  • Fire
  • Bigotry