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

• 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

• 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

• I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

  

  Bill Bennett

• Great images take you on a journey via a single photograph. The depth and layers pull your eye all over the frame, causing you to pick up interesting pieces along the way, ultimately coming to a climax.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Interesting

• One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

  

  Margaret Wertheim
  • People
  • Great

• I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Justice
  • Decision
  • Blow

• The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Movie
  • Purpose

• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

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

  

  Caroline Emelia Stephen
  • Purpose
  • Stability
  • Quietness