Unhallowed Quotes

#1. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Kenneth Grahame

#2. Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together ... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Mary Shelley

#4. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?

Mary Shelley

#5. Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

William Shakespeare

#6. The Establishment Clause ... stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders ... that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

Hugo Black

#7. For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth

#8. I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Rufus Sewell

#9. Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#11. People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.

Paloma Picasso

#12. The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ...

Samuel Ibn Naghrillah

#13. Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.

Russ Roberts

#14. Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.

Katharine Hepburn

#15. Some of the peoples of Africa have been out of trees for only about 50 years.

Richard M. Nixon

#16. Often the difference between success and failure is belief.

Jon Gordon

#17. -No, this is no begining.
-Then an end?
-End is a gloomy word.

Robert Frost

#18. We have to reach out to kids sooner. Everybody needs to step outside of their comfort zone and become friends with someone who is different, no matter what that difference is. And we all have to do it much sooner then senior year of high school.

Jack Chaucer

#19. Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.

Milan Kundera

#20. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

Richard Wagner

#21. Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

Studs Terkel

#22. Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

Bill Bryson