Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. Murray
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Viggo Mortensen
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore de Balzac
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George Eliot
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
Alexander Chee
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
Beck
They're operating under a misconception and have been for many years. As long as they're polite in their critique, we are polite in our response. But if they're mean and rude, I tell them that.
Alex Trebek
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
