Caroline Emelia Stephen Quotes

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

Caroline Emelia Stephen

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Death
  • Day

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • History
  • Nature

• Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Life
  • High

• Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Star
  • Sun

• Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo' jockin' da bitches slappin da hoes

  

  Eric Lynn Wright

• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

  

  Livy
  • Guilty

• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  

  Chester A. Arthur
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Attention

• Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

  

  Elmore Leonard

• After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

  

  Coco Austin
  • Forever

• I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

  

  Adam West

• The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Political
  • Christian
  • Challenge

• Creativity is a game changer. That's true of society, in advertising and in life.

  

  David Droga
  • Life
  • True
  • Game

• When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • May

• 'Yori, Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is-what your genes say it is.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Purpose

• Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Children

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • People
  • Beautiful

• True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

  

  Caroline Emelia Stephen
  • Purpose
  • Stability
  • Quietness