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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. — Richard Cecil

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

[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

Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did. — Cecil Roth

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

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. — 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

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis

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

LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle? — Joseph Fink

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

Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique. — Craig Cecil

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 application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential. — Craig Cecil

The public is always right. — Cecil B. DeMille

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself. — Cecil Taylor

Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet, it is. — Cecil Palmer

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving ... — Cecil B. Day

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

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. — 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

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. — Cecil Baldwin

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

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. — Cecil Rhodes

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

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. — Cecil B. DeMille

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

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. — Richard 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

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. — Cecil Rhodes

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

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. — Richard Cecil

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. — Richard Cecil

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

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. — Cecil Balmond

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not. — Cecil Murphey