Christina Stead Quotes

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Christina Stead

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• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  

  Garry Winogrand
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• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

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• Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

  

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• Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
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• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  

  William Hogarth
  • Thinking
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• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Masters

• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Habit
  • Self-Control
  • Cultivate

• Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Force
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• You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Thinking
  • Learn
  • Lie

• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Interesting
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• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Feet

• And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Soul
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• Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Misery
  • Shoot
  • Both

• We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • People
  • Economy
  • Possible

• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Misery
  • Revolt