Top 42 Southworth Quotes
#1. You don't like this quite country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment.
"No; no better than I do a quiet country grave-yard. I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you," said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#2. Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#3. I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.
Theo James
#4. The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#5. He will love you with everything he has for as long as you let him.
Jamie McGuire
#6. I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#8. Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#9. There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#11. Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#12. Ah, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#13. There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#14. It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#15. You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#17. It is crucial for everyone in society--but especially crucial for teachers, parents, and politicians--to realize that social freedom and personal autonomy depend on well-stocked imaginations, for freedom and autonomy depend on having and making choices.
Marshall Gregory
#18. Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#21. Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.
"I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#22. Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#23. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#25. The church is the only nonprofit on the planet that does not want its leader to know everything he or she can about how the nonprofit functions and pays its bills.
J. Clif Christopher
#26. I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#27. The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#28. Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all ... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.
Elle Fanning
#29. Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#30. If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.
Li Na
#31. In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.
Boots Riley
#33. Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice.
Vu Tran
#35. The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#36. For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!
Avi
#37. Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle.
#38. Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#39. There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#40. Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither Buffon nor any other natural philosopher had ever classified, and who, as a creature of unknown habits, might sometimes be dangerous.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#41. He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
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Frances O'Roark Dowell
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