Reposed Quotes

#1. When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more and more, that the child which first lay under her heart and later reposed upon her breast will be so near to her no more.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.

John S.C. Abbott

#3. That day I oft remember, when from sleep
I first awaked, and found myself reposed,
Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where
And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

John Milton

#4. Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater

Samar Mubarakmand

#5. Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Christopher Gadsden

#7. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

#8. How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

Quintus Ennius

#9. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

Walter Bagehot

#10. Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

John Dryden

#11. Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Francis Bacon

#12. Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

Thomas Adams

#13. I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Elmer Bernstein

#14. Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
Diary of a Country Priest

Georges Bernanos

#15. A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Kacey Musgraves

#16. The impossible happens.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I'd have scratched her eyes out and sucked the holes.

John Marston

#19. Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

William Zinsser

#20. The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?"
Wendy Watson: "What do you think?"
The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication.

Javier Grillo-Marxuach

#21. This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

Eddie Vedder

#22. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.

Donald Harington

#23. What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love ... They're the guiding lights of a life.

Jimmy Carter

#24. Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Alain De Botton