Detains Quotes

#1. Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind!

Homer

#2. Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Sidney remembered how strikingly original the poem was. For George Herbert, the time we spend on earth is not all too brief and transient but too long: because it detains human beings from a life outside time and with God.

James Runcie

#4. Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.

Annie Jacobsen

#5. Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Isaac Watts

#6. How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an hour your presence will not be missed: the day's heat and bustle have tired you; enjoy these precious minutes.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

William Wilberforce

#10. You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet.

Lois Greiman

#11. As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Stephen Fry

#12. If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#13. Cell phones are like a dog's nipples ... you don't have to shout into them!

Emo Philips

#14. and there was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. My

Neil Gaiman

#15. The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Edgar Cayce

#17. You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.

Jodi Picoult

#18. I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

Al Pacino

#19. I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Tim Curry

#20. We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.

Orson Scott Card