Quotes About Noyes

#1. Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Bill N. Lacy

#2. Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.

Paul Theroux

#3. A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#4. Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.

Alfred Noyes

#5. Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

Alfred Noyes

#6. Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

Frances Noyes Hart

#7. Oh cozy horror." ~Clara

Deborah Noyes

#8. St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Alfred Noyes

#9. Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon ...

Alfred Noyes

#10. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

Alfred Noyes

#11. Don't be deceived into believing you know what time it is. Your watch does not tell you the time; it tells you the history of time.

Ray Noyes

#12. If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#13. Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!

Alfred Noyes

#14. There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

Frances Noyes Hart

#15. It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

Frances Noyes Hart

#16. Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Alfred Noyes

#17. Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Alfred Noyes

#18. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

Alfred Noyes

#19. Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Alfred Noyes

#20. Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.

Alfred Noyes

#21. The human heart has always dreamed of a fairer world than the one it knows

Carleton Noyes

#22. Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ...

Frances Noyes Hart

#23. I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

Frances Noyes Hart

#24. The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.

Alfred Noyes

#25. Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
Love will find out the way.

Alfred Noyes

#26. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

Alfred Noyes

#27. Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#28. The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

Edward Noyes Westcott

#29. The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

John Humphrey Noyes

#30. ...love lies hidden in every rose...

Alfred Noyes

#31. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

Alfred Noyes

#32. I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#33. This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

Alfred Noyes

#34. Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.

Alfred Noyes

#35. Death cannot alter facts - only feelings.

Frances Noyes Hart

#36. Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Alfred Noyes

#37. There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Alfred Noyes

#38. draperies, standing in a pool of flickering light with magic shattered

Frances Noyes Hart

#39. what makes sense to you and me is not always God's best.

Penny Noyes