Harold Acton Quotes

#1. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Kanye West

#2. I believe that many a time trouble and sorrow are permitted to come to us that we may see the face of God, and be shut up to trust in Him alone.

D.L. Moody

#3. Had he expected me to hump her leg?

Ilona Andrews

#4. The doubter's doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular age.

James K.A. Smith

#5. Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

Gilbert Highet

#6. Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Harold Holzer

#7. Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

David Levithan

#8. The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

#9. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Harold Acton

#11. Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Jane Austen

#12. So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Harold Acton

#13. It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

Darlene Cates

#14. For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

Evgeny Morozov

#15. A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor