Quotes About Batchelder

#1. The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#2. If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#3. Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"
Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.
Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"
Any nausea? Headache?"
Yep. And it's standing here talking to me. - Author: James Patterson

#4. Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#5. The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment. - Author: Thomas Paine

#6. I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day. - Author: James Patterson

#7. How Time doth lash us with sharp pains,
Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes
And finally bend our backs toward earth
To find the fittest place for burial. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#8. A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK. - Author: Sujit Lalwani

#9. Some fearful sights there be that creep
By night - I mean that harass sleep;
But tenfold more alarming seem these when
They brave the day, to breathe the air like men. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#10. She is holding both hands over her stomach and smiling. It is a primal smile, a primordial smile, a smile of animal contentment - a smile like the smile of a dog with a ball, or a purring cat. It is a smile utterly impossible not to smile back at, and McFadden does. - Author: Scott Gardiner

#11. It's useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war. - Author: Bill Gates

#12. Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts
these three modes of activity exhaust his powers. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#13. It's not an artist's job to change people or save the world. - Author: Marty Rubin

#14. In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects. - Author: Nancy Lancaster

#15. Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. - Author: Robert Herrick

#16. Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt
Thou resurrection rain. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#17. The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not ... it's not new. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#18. Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#19. Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet! - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#20. For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side. - Author: Daniel Morgan

#21. For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#22. Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#23. Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#24. Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#25. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren. - Author: Eda LeShan

#26. Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#27. Every man at three years old is half his height - Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

#28. Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. - Author: Charles Henry Parkhurst

#29. Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#30. Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust. - Author: William Batchelder Greene

#31. It is hard to notice age in those who dream. - Author: Charles Plymell

#32. And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?"
"The Foresail?"
"Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called ... "
... "The Next Sail, Sir?"
"Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler. - Author: L.A. Meyer