Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

Gertrude Atherton

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• Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Work
  • Mean

• Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Facebook
  • President Bush

• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Proud

• 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Term

• I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Going
  • Levels
  • Projects

• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

  

  William Pitt
  • Unlimited
  • Possessor

• I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Giving
  • Baseball
  • Remembered

• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Conduct

• There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • American
  • Together

• I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Done
  • Business

• If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Son
  • Witch
  • Flattery

• Listen to many, speak to a few.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak

• There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Pass
  • Jewel
  • Gems

• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Act

• We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Instruction
  • Consolation
  • Correction

• I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Virtue
  • Consolation
  • Ridicule

• Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Consolation
  • Self-admiration