Distrustfully Quotes

#1. We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

#2. That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

Matthew Henry

#3. I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Ivan Turgenev

#4. The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.

Ernie Harwell

#6. Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

David Rockefeller

#7. The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

#8. The purpose of Knowledge is to create a doorway which leads to the Truth

Misha Hoo

#9. Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.

Orson Scott Card

#10. All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

Laura Marling

#11. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.

Paul Graham

#12. Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos ...

Katherine Paterson

#14. It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

Fiona Apple

#15. Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

Octavio Paz

#16. There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Jim Butcher