Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes

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Katherine Cecil Thurston

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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Where

• We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Book
  • Nature

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Why
  • Sometimes

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • She

• You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Matter
  • Wanted

• I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Why
  • Regret

• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Believe
  • Damnation
  • Mutilates

• It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Party
  • Too Much
  • Blunders

• The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.

  

  R. K. Milholland

• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Soul
  • Dream

• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Country
  • Business

• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Greatness

• Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Important

• The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Done

• My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.

  

  Andrea Leadsom
  • Passion
  • Justice
  • Social

• New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

  

  Alan Young
  • Trying
  • School
  • Complex

• The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Picture
  • Distance

• Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we waste our lives before we learn how to live?" "I am sure," he returned, "that we do not learn as fast as we are willing to learn. God does not force instruction upon us, but when we say as Luther did, 'More light, Lord, more light,' the light comes." I questioned myself after he had gone as to whether this could be true of me. Is there not in my heart some secret reluctance to know the truth lest that knowledge should call to a higher and a holier life than I have yet tried?

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Cities
  • Manifest
  • Florence