Lady Hester Stanhope Quotes

#1. When you put the pads on ... it's time to make plays.

DeMarcus Ware

#2. I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#3. If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

Kobe Bryant

#4. Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

Lady Hester Stanhope

#5. I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.

Barbara Hall

#6. A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world

Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

#7. A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

Eric Metaxas

#8. You've got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell

#9. We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

Jim Butcher

#10. If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man.

Chris Wade

#11. As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Gavyn Davies

#12. It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Lady Hester Stanhope

#13. Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#15. Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#16. If Blake thought she was going to be some meek, mealy-mouthed
pushover grateful for his dick and his non-apologies, he obviously didn't know what it took to make a room full of tenth graders pay attention.

Rebecca Brooks

#17. Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#18. As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

William Gurnall

#19. I'm not going to run for political office.

Phil Robertson

#20. Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.

Jack Miles