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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
It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
— Cecil Castellucci
The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
— Cecil Balmond
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
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
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
— Cecil Beaton
The really witty man does not shower forth his wit so indiscriminately;
— Cecil B. Hartley
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
The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.
— Cecil Castellucci
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
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
— Richard Cecil
A good horse is the best company in the world.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
And, unknown to herself, he had done a portrait in words.
— Cecil Roberts
In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
What is elegance? Soap and water!
— Cecil Beaton
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
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
— Arthur Cecil Pigou
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
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
Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ...
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
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
I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.
— Karen Cecil Smith
They who in folly or mere greedEnslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.
— Cecil Thounaojam
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
— Richard Cecil
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
— Jeffrey Whittam
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
— Richard Cecil
Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.
— Karen Cecil Smith
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law.
— 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
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
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
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
— Cecil B. DeMille
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
— Cecil B. DeMille
First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I.
— Karen Cecil Smith
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
It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
I kind of went from bi-curious to bisexual in the space of time it took you to agree to fuck me.
— Cecil Wilde
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
— Cecil Purdy
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
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
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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
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
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
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
There can be no liberty without the law.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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
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
Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.
— Cecil Castellucci
Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!
— Harper Lee
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
