Miss Celia Quotes

#1. The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

Philip Littell

#2. Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#3. By the time I twenty, I was just like everyone else. I still am

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#4. The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

Lewis Mumford

#5. What should we do about it?" asks Miss Celia.
We. God forgive me, but I wish there wasn't a "we" mixed up in this. (Minny)

Kathryn Stockett

#6. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

Padma Lakshmi

#7. Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

Francis Chan

#8. During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Charles Todd

#9. It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

T. Boone Pickens

#10. That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

Jay Caselberg

#11. They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

Steve Almond

#12. I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there's a moment of panic. On the other hand there's a lot of control that users have.

Susan Wojcicki

#13. Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand

Celia Conrad

#14. The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Benjamin Disraeli