Burne Jones Quotes

#1. The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

#3. I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

#4. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

John Le Carre

#5. The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

#6. My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. I'm poor and my cat is huge.

Christopher Moore

#8. Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

Thomas G. Stemberg

#9. We must pay for the wine we have drunk.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

#10. You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.

Marie Forleo

#11. Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole!

Andy Weir

#12. Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

Edward Burne-Jones

#13. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#14. How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

Joanie Connell

#16. It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

#17. I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Rufus Wainwright

#18. To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Arthur Schnitzler

#19. I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

#20. I want to develop a small make-up line myself. I want to combine all the things that I love and just create them the way I want them to be.

Jessica Hart

#21. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Edward Burne-Jones

#22. One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

David Selby

#23. I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace.

Jon Lee Anderson