Emily Eden Quotes

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

Emily Eden

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• I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Home
  • Running
  • Heat

• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  

  Alice James
  • Moments
  • Refinement
  • Robust

• Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gods
  • Carries
  • Refinement

• The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Sometimes
  • Natural
  • Accompany

• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • First Love
  • Catching
  • Vaccination

• I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Expression
  • Passing
  • Catching

• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Sunshine
  • Catching
  • Streaming

• It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Lips
  • Refinement

• Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
  • Color
  • Wind
  • Green

• Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!

  

  Keiko Nobumoto
  • Littles
  • Breeze
  • Geek

• I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Voice
  • I Love You
  • Catching

• Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Expression

• I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Awesome
  • Radio
  • Platform

• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  

  Confucius
  • Guilt
  • Thinks
  • Wickedness

• Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Forever
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Remember
  • Patient
  • Becoming

• Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Science
  • Figures

• Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Response
  • Publicity
  • Attendant

• What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Laughed
  • Bulls

• If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Community

• There is nothing so catching as refinement.

  

  Emily Eden
  • Catching
  • Refinement