Eugenie de Guerin Quotes

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

Eugenie de Guerin

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Remember

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Hanged

• To me, country songs are simple.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Me
  • Simple

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Spirit

• In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Underdog

• Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Man

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.

  

  Dana Perino
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Country
  • You
  • Never

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• I wrote 'Flatliner' with Dierks Bentley in mind in 2013.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Mind

• Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Plant

• Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Kids

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  

  Jim Rohn

• One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Wheel