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

• Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Ideas
  • End
  • First

• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Together
  • Play
  • Beat

• 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

• I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Despise
  • Superficial
  • Mystics

• Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

  

  Michael Sweet Boston
  • Poor
  • Particular
  • Printing

• God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Hope
  • Gifts

• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  

  Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Band
  • Hats
  • Embarrassment

• 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