George Sterling Quotes

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

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• I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • History
  • Human

• There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Power
  • Silly
  • Caring

• Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Things
  • Rational

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Respect

• If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Because

• Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Persecution
  • Drive out
  • Subjugate

• Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Dad
  • Parent
  • Laughing

• If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • School
  • I Think
  • I Hope

• The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Exists
  • False
  • Conclusions

• Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Changing World

• As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

  

  George Sterling
  • Gods
  • Breath
  • Fires