Stylites Quotes

#1. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads;

Herman Melville

#2. Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Lawrence Durrell

#3. Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#4. Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Vanna Bonta

#5. Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord?

Darrell Johnson

#6. The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.

Hugh B. Brown

#7. I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Uzo Aduba

#8. I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'

Sean Taylor

#9. You're not a creature in body.
You exist as the stars exist,
participating in their stillness, their immensity.

Louise Gluck

#10. Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore resolved upon a deed of "frightfulness" deeply embarrassing to his nineteenth-century admirers and apologists. Having

Winston S. Churchill

#11. All changes are born within.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

Montel Williams

#13. Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.

Mansi Soni

#14. We're the propaganda monkeys.
The digital download junkies.
The skunk smoking geezers
With an inflatable Jesus.
We're the kitsch and cool.
Divide and rule.

Harry Whitewolf

#15. I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Jack Nicklaus

#16. Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Mason Cooley