Noah Webster Quotes

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Noah Webster

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• The world is always terrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Always
  • Terrible

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Personal
  • Aesthetic
  • My Own

• The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Celebration

• But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words

• Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life

• Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • House
  • Desire
  • Jesus

• Action, not words.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Words
  • Action

• Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Help
  • Stop
  • Road

• There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • World
  • High

• The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Work
  • God
  • Son

• Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Study
  • Thoughts
  • Humble

• If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Children
  • Judge

• It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

  

  Christopher Knight
  • Honor

• I'm for comfort, not for style.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Style

• In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Place

• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Science

• The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Happens
  • Realizing
  • Deals

• If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Trying

• We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Present
  • Uniforms

• The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Cultivated