Interposed Quotes

#1. Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

George Herbert

#2. Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.

Harold Frederic

#3. O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Samuel Wilberforce

#4. New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

Joseph O'Neill

#5. What is it which has always come between real life and me? What glass screen has, as it were, interposed itself between me and the enjoyment, the possession, the contact of things, leaving me only the role of the looker-on?

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!

Fulgentius Of Cartagena

#7. In his mind he vaguely pondered whether he should strike that long-legged Englishman in the face and call him a coward, or whether such conduct in a lady's presence might be deemed ungentlemanly, when Marguerite happily interposed.

Emmuska Orczy

#8. The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require
that force should be interposed to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

William Cowper

#10. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. We must not inquire too curiously into motives,' he interposed, in his measured way. 'Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.

George Eliot

#12. In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

Richard Condon

#13. I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

Wendy Davis

#14. But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Kenji Miyazawa

#15. I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Timothy Carey

#16. If the warriors come here, and your head is still on your shoulders at sunset, come and find me,

Paulo Coelho

#17. Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.

Kenneth O. Gangel

#18. I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Christopher Walken

#19. I was sitting in my kitchen agonizing over my Christmas grocery list when I heard the noise.

R.J. Harlick

#20. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Mae West

#21. The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Claude Bernard

#22. Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Isaac Of Nineveh