Edward Young Quotes

Accept a miracle instead of wit,-See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Edward Young

• Miracle

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Moment

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • You
  • Answers

• In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Peace
  • Support
  • Equality

• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  

  Edmond About
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Battle

• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Way

• I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Story

• I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Enjoy Life

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Men
  • Heart
  • History

• Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Book

• To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

  

  Claude Monet
  • House
  • Air
  • Lies

• Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Trying
  • Brain

• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Job
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership

• Having an education is invaluable.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Education
  • Invaluable

• I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Reason

• Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Mind
  • Impossible

• Accept a miracle instead of wit,-See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

  

  Edward Young
  • Miracle