Quotes About Blithe

#1. It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

Graydon Carter

#2. I dwell no more in Arcady, But when the sky is blue with May, And birds are blithe and winds are free, I know what message is for me, For I have been in Arcady.

Louise Chandler Moulton

#3. Ah! gay the day with shine of sun,
and bright the breeze, and blithe the
throng
Met on the River-bank to play,
when I was young, when I was young

Richard Francis Burton

#4. He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

Khaled Hosseini

#5. Standing on the bare ground,
my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,
all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free ...

Henry Van Dyke

#7. To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.

John Milton

#8. 'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Paul Di Filippo

#9. A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Thomas E. Mann

#10. The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Ross Macdonald

#11. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Rudolf Hilferding

#13. However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Blithe; he seething - until they had left the restaurant and started

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#16. I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

Terry Teachout

#18. He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought
some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.

Helen Simonson

#19. I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

Sara Sheridan

#20. I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Meghan O'Rourke

#21. The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

#23. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#24. When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Phyllis McGinley

#25. One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Rosamund Pike

#26. Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.

Hilary Mantel

#27. I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me ... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Karen Black

#28. Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

Neal Asher

#29. Fight the enemy. Not their people.

Patrick Weekes

#30. The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Douglas Adams

#31. And now, I understand intimately how you don't realize what you have until you lose it. Maybe holding something precious at a distance is the only way to measure its value. The

Jodi Picoult

#32. Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Jim Rohn

#33. A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.

Ian Caldwell

#34. Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

Lao-Tzu

#35. Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

Alice Cooper