Christine McCormick Day Quotes

It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed.

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• [Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Agents

• We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

  

  Queen Victoria

• Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • End
  • Self-contemlation
  • Self-conceit

• Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Opinion

• "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Ego

• A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Silence
  • Voice
  • Sea

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Evil

• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Bread
  • Butter
  • Quarrel

• Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.

  

  Ami McKay
  • Memories
  • Moment
  • Remind

• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Gain

• I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • Starts
  • Unearthed