Compassed Quotes

#1. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.

{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

J.J. Thomson

#2. Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3. While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

John Dryden

#4. Hung in the scales
with beauty and atrocity:
with the Dying Gaul
too strictly compassed
on his shield
with the actual weight
of each hooded victim,
slashed and dumped.

Seamus Heaney

#5. All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

Tom Sharpe

#6. You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Spike Jonze

#8. Whatever you do, do with great care, great love, and great passion.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Life,disassembled and
reassembled into a thing of beauty,reflect GOD love in a manifestation of unlimited grace.

Peter Adejimi

#10. I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Jack Canfield

#11. Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

Phyllis Diller

#12. The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.

Michael Hastings

#13. I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

Thomas A. Edison

#14. They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

Dan Carr

#15. God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

Jamie Oliver