Emma Mr Woodhouse Quotes

#1. I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Richard Simmons

#2. ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser

Lewis Carroll

#3. All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

John Podhoretz

#4. Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

Anna Brackett

#5. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#6. I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

Thighpaulsandra

#7. It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Jane Austen

#9. My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

#10. Move over, Emma Woodhouse. You have met your match.

Diane Moody

#11. God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

Adam Hamilton

#12. I would be taught to take pride in my work, pride in my appearance and pride in my stride. No longer would I have to worry about going to hell. All I would have to worry about was how I looked.

Mary MacDowell

#13. This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

Katherine Paterson

#14. We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

#15. Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you've never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.

Lang Leav

#16. Heavens! let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma Woodhouse-ing me! But, upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness of that woman's tongue!

Jane Austen

#17. Not dancing well, I never danced at all
and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Walter Savage Landor

#18. Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Jack Gilbert

#19. At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

William Standish Knowles

#20. Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

Jane Austen