James Beattie Quotes

#1. And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie

#2. You could take up knitting," he suggested.
My eyebrows scrunched together. "The Angel of Death is suggesting I adopt knitting as a hobby?"
Warren's shoulders shook with with silent laughter.

Elicia Hyder

#3. He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

James Beattie

#4. Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#5. All I could do was scream, "How dare you! What have you DONE?! Put my books back!

Mary Ann Shaffer

#6. In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

James Beattie

#7. At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

James Beattie

#8. We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

Gary Saul Morson

#9. No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

James Beattie

#10. Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

Julie Kagawa

#11. It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Henri Matisse

#12. Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

Nhat Hanh

#13. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

James Beattie

#14. Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

James Beattie

#15. How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

James Beattie

#16. Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

James Beattie

#17. The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

Nathan Myhrvold

#18. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

James Beattie

#19. From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

James Beattie

#20. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Dean Koontz