Voluntarily Refrain Quotes

#1. It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

John Stuart Mill

#2. I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Edward Luck

#3. I'd rather watch the grass grow than listen to gossip.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#4. More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him.

Sarah Ferguson

#5. A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.

Kyle Abraham

#6. I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

Jordana Spiro

#7. Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.

Jules Verne

#10. The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Edgar Lee Masters

#11. Mountains dream. But a single dream my last a thousand years.

Kat Ross

#12. Lyme is a word. Not a sentence.

Rebecca VanDeMark

#13. She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

Julia Child

#14. "Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

George Crabbe