Top 100 Edwin Quotes
#1. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
Steven Millhauser
#2. Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. "You
P.G. Wodehouse
#3. Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
Richard M. Nixon
#4. Then pointing to Edwin's shoes, he said: "Those look skilfully crafted. Did you make them yourself?" "Master Baldwin made them for me. The most skilled shoemaker in the village,
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. Success in life is 50% what you know and 50% who you know, and one is not worth much without the other.- Senator Edwin G. Holl
Paul Edwin Holl Esq.
#6. Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.
Rhys Bowen
#7. We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#8. Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.
Patrick E. McLean
#9. But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. - EDWIN MUIR
Doris Lessing
#10. Angelina would have gone on loving Edwin forever and ever and ever if only Edwin had not grown so strange and different. Edwin would have adored Angelina through eternity if Angelina had only remained the same as when he first adored her.
Jerome K. Jerome
#11. But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding.
Stephen Hawking
#12. The geographer and politician Edwin Brooks argued more than 40 years ago that what we had to avoid was a dystopian future of a 'crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth buttressed by stark force and endlessly threatened by desperate men in the global ghettoes'.2 These
Paul Rogers
#13. (Photo by Edwin Bonde, June 24, 1945, courtesy Alan Bonde)
Flint Whitlock
#14. Edwin's creations landed hit or miss on the board and one miss a year ago ended with us heaving overboard for a week. Fortifying meal solutions, my ass.
Katherine McIntyre
#15. As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.
Rupert Holmes
#16. The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
Billy Connolly
#17. Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#18. Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
Steve Jobs
#19. I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
Rupert Holmes
#20. To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.
Gary Younge
#22. In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.
Stephen Hawking
#23. Edwin Yorke was attractive and intelligent and employed--the holy trifecta of good men.
Tiffany Reisz
#24. If you only trust God when you don't have to, or only when you understand Him, you won't get very far." Edwin
Eric M. Hill
#25. Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#26. And he claims another victim." I cracked a grin. "Edwin, you're turning this
infirmary into a speakeasy.
Katherine McIntyre
#27. The moral arguments against war are irrefutable. As the musician Edwin Starr put it, War. Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Steven Pinker
#28. Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.
Edwin Gaustad
#29. A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
Edwin Louis Cole
#30. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
Edwin Schlossberg
#31. Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
Edwin Land
#32. A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.
James Edwin Gunn
#33. The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.
Edwin Muir
#34. William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
Edwin Newman
#35. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.
Edwin A. Abbott
#36. If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
Edwin Lefevre
#37. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#38. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
#39. We are never alone God will always be with us.
Edwin Medina
#40. Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'
Edwin Land
#41. Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#42. Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#43. Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!
Edwin Louis Cole
#44. The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#45. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
#46. The world belongs to the articulate.
Edwin Land
#47. Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Edwin Arnold
#48. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#49. You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.
Edwin Land
#50. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.
Edwin H. Friedman
#51. The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.
Edwin Land
#52. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#53. No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#54. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#55. Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#56. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#57. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
Edwin Markham
#58. If you want to remain the best, you have to keep on doing what you are good at.
Edwin Soeryadjaya
#59. Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."
Edwin Morris
#60. You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
Edwin Louis Cole
#61. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#62. Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#63. Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.
Edwin Boring
#64. She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#65. You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
Edwin Land
#66. The public never is independently responsive to news.
Edwin Lefevre
#67. Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
Edwin Moses
#68. It is not always easy for a young player to come through at the club level, because all the clubs are able to buy for 20 million or 30 million and it is hard for young English talent to come through and to get recognition and be able to be part of the squad or start playing.
Edwin Van Der Sar
#69. What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
Edwin Louis Cole
#71. To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
Edwin Louis Cole
#72. If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Edwin Catmull
#73. If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.
James Edwin Gunn
#74. Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#75. There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#76. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#77. As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.
Edwin Land
#78. Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Edwin Newman
#79. I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.
Edwin A. Abbott
#80. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Edwin Arnold
#81. Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Edwin Louis Cole
#82. I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.
Edwin M. Stanton
#83. Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
Edwin Morgan
#88. Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#89. A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land
#90. I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.
Edwin Muir
#91. The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
Edwin Hardy Amies
#93. As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.
Edwin Meese
#95. A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.
Edwin Booth
#96. Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
Edwin Louis Cole
#97. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
#98. The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#100. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
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