Caroline Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton) Quotes

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

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• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • World
  • Great
  • Trying

• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Majority

• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Feelings

• I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Facts

• Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • America
  • Poor

• I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Books
  • Choose

• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Real
  • Help
  • Action

• In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Cold

• Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

  

  William Cowper
  • Judgment
  • Surrender
  • Fascination

• I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Stories
  • Ears

• My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Language
  • Cities

• How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Women
  • History
  • Thirty

• I’ve been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I’ve seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Violence
  • Humans
  • Creatures

• They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Wells
  • Creatures