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Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
My life sucks. So I shave my head.
— Cecil Castellucci
Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.
— Robert Anton Wilson
The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
— Cecil Balmond
A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.
— Lord David Cecil
There's a reason that grueling long-term events are called 'Iron Man' events. In this case, you're going to build Iron Man.
— Craig Cecil
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
— Robert Cecil
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[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
— Cecil Beaton
There's a monster at the end of this book. It's the blank page where the story ends and you're left alone with yourself and your thoughts.
— Cecil Baldwin
Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
— Joel Hodgson
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
— Cecil Castellucci
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
— Cecil Frank Powell
The really witty man does not shower forth his wit so indiscriminately;
— Cecil B. Hartley
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
What is elegance? Soap and water!
— Cecil Beaton
In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays) — William Cecil Dampier
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
— Cecil Beaton
Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ...
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Silent is the ruined land.Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten. — Cecil Castellucci
And, unknown to herself, he had done a portrait in words.
— Cecil Roberts
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. — Cecil Castellucci
There can be no liberty without the law.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
— Richard Cecil
A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
If there were such a thing as a vampire-puppy-dog, it would be Cecil. Big pleading eyes, asking for an ear-scratch and a nice warm bowl of blood.
— Franny Billingsley
Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high.
— Cecil Thounaojam
Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough.
— Karen Cecil Smith
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
— Richard Cecil
Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.
— Cecil Palmer
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
— Gloria Swanson
Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.
— Cecil Frances Alexander
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.
— Cecil Thounaojam
A good horse is the best company in the world.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
God hath his mysteries of grace,Ways that we cannot tell,
He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
Of him he loved so well. — Cecil Frances Alexander
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
— Cecil B. DeMille
The public is always right.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
— Cecil Taylor
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
— Lord David Cecil
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
— Richard Cecil
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
— Cecil Purdy
I kind of went from bi-curious to bisexual in the space of time it took you to agree to fuck me.
— Cecil Wilde
First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I.
— Karen Cecil Smith
Love is someone you can be silly with
— Cecil Beaton
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
— Steven Spielberg
Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
— Cecil Rhodes
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
— Richard Cecil
Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said.
— Franny Billingsley
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!
— Harper Lee
If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry.
— Karen Cecil Smith
I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.
— Karen Cecil Smith
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
— Arthur Cecil Pigou
The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.
— Cecil Castellucci
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
— Cecil B. DeMille
I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace.
— Cecil B. DeMille
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
— Richard Cecil
Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.
— Cecil Thounaojam
Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.
— Cecil Castellucci
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
— Richard Cecil
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.
— Cecil Castellucci
Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.
— Craig Cecil
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
— Richard Cecil
It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
Cecil: "A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.
— William Carmichael
She reached out her arms to Blackie. The beautiful siren was calling her weary sailor safely to port.
— Karen Cecil Smith
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
— Cecil B. DeMille
You don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
— Cecil Dawkins
Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
— Cecil Castellucci
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
