Undevout Quotes

#1. Good religious poetry ... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

A.E. Housman

#2. An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. The undevout astronomer must be mad.

William Herschel

#4. It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

Edward Young

#5. An undevout astronomer is mad.

Edward Young

#6. And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

Anne Sexton

#7. I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

Cesar Milstein

#8. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground?

Alexander Hamilton

#9. The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Saint Augustine

#10. I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Patsy Cline

#11. Empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves ... These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks bound with gold or pearls bear the glittering symbols of their captivity to men.

Laura Cereta

#12. Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

A. J. Jacobs

#13. Believe you already are what you want to be. And then start acting like it.

Jeff Goins

#14. Life is Heaven until unless we make it Hell

Myself

#15. Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

Dov Davidoff

#16. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. We don't discover, we don't learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten ...

Guillermo Del Toro

#18. Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.

Riley Smith

#19. We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Thomas A Kempis

#20. When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Richard Rohr