Gildersleeve Quotes

#1. It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Gildersleeve D

Ann Patty

#2. For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Plautus

#3. Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Morris Gleitzman

#4. Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Benjamin Walker

#5. Which word when pronounced right is wrong but if pronounced wrong is right? The word wrong.

Phineas T. Gildersleeve

#6. The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#7. You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant ... and you may quote me.

James Stewart

#8. You are so beautiful," he sighed into her hair.
She tried to check her girlish giggle, unsuccessfully. "Gray, it's dark as
pitch. You can't even see me."
"Even in the dark," he murmured against her skin. "You are the most
beautiful woman I've ever known, even in the dark.

Tessa Dare

#9. When we are addicted to an image; it is narcissistic.The image is all we care about, not the depth.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#10. At this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#11. Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#12. Saga of Tristan and Danika. The battles and the victories. The defeats and the triumphs. The tragedies and the trials. Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up,

R.K. Lilley

#13. Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#15. I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#16. When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it's time to wake up.

Rachelle Ayala

#17. There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Aristotle.

#18. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Paul J. Meyer