Ferrier Quotes

#1. Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

Agatha Christie

#2. They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The

John Connolly

#3. clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

John Connolly

#4. But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#5. Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue.

Raoul Dufy

#6. What will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#7. we can influence others, and change their behaviour, if: a) they are motivated to do what we are asking them to do; and b) what we are asking them to do is relatively easy.

Adam Ferrier

#8. There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#9. Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

David Ferrier

#10. Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.

Susan Ferrier

#11. Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Edgar Bergen

#12. Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#13. Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#14. There's no doctor like meat and drink ...

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#15. Lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#16. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.

T. Colin Campbell

#17. Write all your notes and quotes on separate three-by-five-inch cards. Then, when you get ready to organize your thinking, just spread them all out on the floor, see the natural structure that emerges, and figure out what's missing.

David Allen

#18. To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

#19. It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#20. I don't like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody's funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up.

Craig Johnson

#21. Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#22. Put God first in everything you do.

Denzel Washington

#23. I am for everything starting
into full-blown perfection
at once.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#24. The synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier