Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes

#1. I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

Conan O'Brien

#2. The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#3. The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#4. Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#5. It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

Justin Cronin

#6. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Julie Bowen

#7. We must do all that depends on us to advance the kingdom of God

Sunday Adelaja

#8. I like what we're doing. I don't want something else right now; will you just focus on the dick in your hand?

Christina Lauren

#9. What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst,
A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst,
Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour,
The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#10. I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

Orhan Pamuk

#11. Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#12. Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

Joseph Campbell

#13. It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#14. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

Charles Godfrey Leland

#16. For they speak of Christ, not that they may preach Christ, but that they may reject Christ; and they speak of the law, not that they may establish the law, but that they may proclaim things contrary to it.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#17. The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Jane Austen

#18. Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#19. When you are ready to accept the risk, only then can you open the doors of opportunity

Debasish Mridha

#20. Thought is the measure of life.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#21. When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#22. They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#23. To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#24. Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!

Charles Godfrey Leland

#25. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#26. If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been.

Charles Godfrey Leland