Cecil Frances Alexander Quotes

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Cecil Frances Alexander

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• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • City
  • Myself
  • Process

• When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

  

  Edmund White
  • American
  • English
  • Model

• Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Proud

• My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Personality
  • Lies
  • Two

• I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • History
  • inspirational

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Support
  • Pride

• There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Fun
  • City
  • Process

• Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • College
  • Winning

• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • May

• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Marriage
  • Poverty

• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Public
  • Sanity
  • Disagree

• Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Faith

• I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poor

• Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Speak
  • Communication
  • Names

• We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Learn
  • Wash
  • Cleaner

• Conciseness is underrated

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Conciseness

• When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Compassion
  • Disease
  • Relate

• The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Gates