Robert Leighton Quotes

#1. Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.

Robert B. Leighton

#2. A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

Coventry Patmore

#3. First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

Sonia Rykiel

#4. Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

Robert B. Leighton

#5. Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.

Robert Leighton

#6. Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#8. All knitting is choreography.

Clara Parkes

#9. There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings

#10. I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

#11. For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Quintilian

#12. Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

John Berger

#13. Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.

Robert B. Leighton

#14. I'm not sure I like this. It has a slut-shaming flavor, like they really wanted to give me Biggest Ho.

Jennifer Echols

#15. The kind of accidents you prefer to call ... accidents.

Terry Pratchett

#16. We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

Robert B. Leighton

#17. My heart always knew, you're the dew, my dry soul would never adieu.. but I still don't know why I let you go and waited all my life just for you.

Syed Arshad

#18. Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.

Robert B. Leighton

#19. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Cassandra Clare