Top 100 St Augustus Quotes

#1. That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

Seimone Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #1585
#2. I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #2294
#3. It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #4087
#4. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #6719
#5. Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #7715
#6. Lord Augustus thought that his brother should have a personal interview with his young brother peer, and bring his strawberry leaves to bear. The

Anthony Trollope

St Augustus Quotes #8080
#7. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

Augustus Toplady

St Augustus Quotes #11294
#8. You used to call me Augustus.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #24457
#9. I was x years old in the year x2.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #30556
#10. It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #36643
#11. My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #36732
#12. Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #43632
#13. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #52533
#14. Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #55212
#15. What would you know about anything, Jasper?" Augustus asked. "Age don't slow a man's whoring. It's lack of income that does that. No more prosperous than you look, I wouldn't think you'd know much about it.

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #57420
#16. People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #60322
#17. Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #63000
#18. Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #63530
#19. Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #63599
#20. Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #65957
#21. Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

George Augustus Henry Sala

St Augustus Quotes #67126
#22. How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #67287
#23. I want to leave a mark.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #78643
#24. Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #79205
#25. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

James Augustus St. John

St Augustus Quotes #82350
#26. A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

Augustus John

St Augustus Quotes #87102
#27. A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #87472
#28. His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #88947
#29. The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #92633
#30. But he didn't survive a war, not really," Augustus said. "He survived a genocide.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #95497
#31. Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

Augustus Toplady

St Augustus Quotes #97357
#32. I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.

Stephanie Dray

St Augustus Quotes #98211
#33. A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

George Augustus Henry Sala

St Augustus Quotes #98240
#34. Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,
one pure, the other impure.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #107667
#35. I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

Seimone Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #122191
#36. Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #126979
#37. It is in your interest', said the dancer Pylades to Augustus, 'that the people should devote their spare time to us entertainers - if they do so, they will not bother about subversive politics.

Michael Grant

St Augustus Quotes #130953
#38. The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it ...

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #135032
#39. My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

Seimone Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #135812
#40. What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #139673
#41. Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #143830
#42. I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #144598
#43. And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminded one of a cat watching birds, when he had found the word, and her husband said, "Poor old Augustus--he's a true poet," which was high praise from her husband.

Virginia Woolf

St Augustus Quotes #147200
#44. -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #154548
#45. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

St Augustus Quotes #155729
#46. The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

George Augustus Henry Sala

St Augustus Quotes #156362
#47. A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #159293
#48. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

St Augustus Quotes #165198
#49. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973.

John Edward Williams

St Augustus Quotes #167145
#50. Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #177379
#51. The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #180203
#52. When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #187250
#53. Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.

Seimone Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #193081
#54. I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #196157
#55. You'll find my leg under the coffee table.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #197213
#56. But mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside - foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty along about sundown,

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #197582
#57. Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #197715
#58. Where feeling is reaction, emotion is adaptation. So feeling is an instantaneous, nonreflective (there's no time for reflection!) arising, but emotion is all about how we handle that feeling.

Robert Augustus Masters

St Augustus Quotes #199162
#59. In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #209992
#60. Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #217565
#61. You're always such a disappointment, Augustus. Couldn't you have at least gotten orange tomatoes?

Hazel Grace Lancaster

St Augustus Quotes #225957
#62. You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. - Augustus Waters

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #227745
#63. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #235741
#64. He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg.
"I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #236991
#65. Oh, my god," Augustus said. "I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes."
"I was thirteen," I said again, although of course I was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #240302
#66. What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #240672
#67. Goddam. Aren't you something else.

Augustus Waters The Fault In Our Stars

St Augustus Quotes #251328
#68. And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.

Augustus Hill

St Augustus Quotes #256107
#69. Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling

Augustus Toplady

St Augustus Quotes #262491
#70. The fact that Augustus made me feel special did not necessarily indicate that I was special.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #265753
#71. It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

St Augustus Quotes #272040
#72. Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #273493
#73. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #274068
#74. Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #275998
#75. You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.

Seimone Augustus

St Augustus Quotes #284885
#76. Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #288228
#77. Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #302835
#78. It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #310349
#79. Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

Augustus Napier

St Augustus Quotes #311164
#80. It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #311742
#81. Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

George Augustus Henry Sala

St Augustus Quotes #316400
#82. What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #330032
#83. Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #332397
#84. All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

St Augustus Quotes #334584
#85. Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

St Augustus Quotes #336586
#86. You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #345787
#87. Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

St Augustus Quotes #352082
#88. Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride.

Larry McMurtry

St Augustus Quotes #357757
#89. This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.

John Cheever

St Augustus Quotes #357813
#90. How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #363673
#91. A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #378445
#92. Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

John Green

St Augustus Quotes #380491
#93. To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #384131
#94. Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #387775
#95. The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Augustus De Morgan

St Augustus Quotes #391173
#96. Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

John Ortberg

St Augustus Quotes #397244
#97. In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #404546
#98. He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

St Augustus Quotes #404938
#99. The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Augustus William Hare

St Augustus Quotes #406448
#100. Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Augustus Hare

St Augustus Quotes #409357

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