Top 39 Alice Duer Miller Quotes
#1. It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
Alice Duer Miller
#2. When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
#4. Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ...
Alice Duer Miller
#5. A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
Henry Louis Gates
#6. If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
#8. Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
Alice Duer Miller
#9. To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.
Kevin DeYoung
#10. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
Alice Duer Miller
#11. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Alice Duer Miller
#12. If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?
Charles Spurgeon
#13. Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
Roger Ascham
#14. I walked out of the classroom and felt like dancing and singing. It all gave me hope. It gave me a little bit of joy. And I kept trying to find the little pieces of joy in my life. That's the only way I managed to make it through all of that death and change
Sherman Alexie
#15. Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.
Avril Lavigne
#16. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
#17. I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.
Ellis Peters
#18. Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
#19. I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Alice Duer Miller
#20. It's impossible not to believe in ghosts, They light up the night sky every time the sun goes down, reminding us that we are never alone.
Dannielle Wicks
#21. Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Alice Duer Miller
#22. I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
Simon R. Green
#23. I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
Ariel Pink
#24. Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
#25. The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.
Winston Churchill
#26. Mother, what is a Feminist?"
"A feminist, my daughter,
Is any woman now who cares
To think about her own affairs
As men don't think she oughter.
Alice Duer Miller
#27. It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Alice Duer Miller
#28. There, little girl, don't read,
You're fond of your books, I know,
But Brother might mope
If he had no hope
Of getting ahead of you.
It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
There, little girl, don't read.
Alice Duer Miller
#29. In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
Alice Duer Miller
#30. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,
I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
Alice Duer Miller
#31. I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth
#32. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Michael Bloomberg
#33. People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.
Alice Duer Miller
#34. Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Alice Duer Miller
#35. They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind them now and then
That other countries breed other men.
Alice Duer Miller
#36. That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...
Swami Prabhavananda
#37. Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ...
Alice Duer Miller
#38. Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Alice Duer Miller
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