John Robert Seeley Quotes

#1. We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

#2. She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

Rick Yancey

#3. 8challenge yourself every single day...

Depe

#4. Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said.
"Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.

Neal Shusterman

#5. His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

Emily Dickinson

#6. Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life - that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.

Seneca.

#7. In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

Ann Coulter

#8. I am one of the haunted.

Rosie O'Donnell

#9. When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

Michelle Forbes

#10. And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

Laura Wiess

#11. No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

John Robert Seeley

#12. Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

John Robert Seeley

#13. I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever ...

Amy Harmon

#14. History is the school of statesmanship.

John Robert Seeley

#15. History without politics descends to mere Literature.

John Robert Seeley

#16. No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

John Robert Seeley

#17. It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

John Robert Seeley

#18. Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#19. Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Jeremy Bentham

#20. Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

John Robert Seeley

#21. A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

John Robert Seeley

#22. I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

Pink

#23. I don't inflict horrors on readers.

Alan Furst

#24. Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Oscar Wilde