Auguries Quotes

#1. The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

- "Auguries of Innocence

William Blake

#2. Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

Dennis L. McKiernan

#3. Prophet of evil I ever am to myself: forced for ever into sorrowful auguries that I have no power to hide from my own heart, no, not through one night's solitary dreams.

Thomas De Quincey

#4. Auguries of innocence
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

William Blake

#5. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

Whitney Johnson

#6. Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Elaine Sciolino

#7. I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice ... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Frank McCourt

#8. When he stood from the couch, I instantly felt his loss and my body moved to the edge of my seat, almost as if it was trying to stay connected when I lost his weight against my side.

Harper Sloan

#9. He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

Margaret Benson

#10. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?

Teresa Of Avila

#11. After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

C.S. Lewis

#13. It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

John Yoo

#14. I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

Fred Astaire

#15. Honest to God, dollface, you need to stop running around in that fuckin' nightie. You're killin' me.

Kristen Ashley

#16. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Ming-Dao Deng

#17. It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.

Nick Bilton

#18. It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

David Jeremiah