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All artist of some measure contemplative.
— Evelyn Underhill
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...
— Evelyn Underhill
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
— Evelyn Underhill
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
— Evelyn Waugh
She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
— Veronica Roth
Sleep always eluded the pursuer.
— Evelyn Anthony
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
— Evelyn Underhill
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
— Evelyn Waugh
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
— Evelyn Fox Keller
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
— Evelyn Waugh
But for the young Laban, these black sheep were sympathetic figures, and by letting them appear on stage, he gave them an opportunity to be heard.
— Evelyn Doerr
Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.
— Evelyn Waugh
Mandela and his first wife, Evelyn, on their wedding day
— Hilary Brown
You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first ...
— Evelyn Waugh
Jesus' approach to training was primarily as a mentor, and his mentoring method was relational, informal, oral, and mobile.
— Evelyn Hibbert
I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.
— Evelyn Glennie
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
— Evelyn Waugh
Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?
— Evelyn Waugh
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
— John Evelyn
I'm already in hell; what else you got?
— Evelyn Smith
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
— Evelyn Underhill
I warn you, sir, I am more than skilled in deadly combat," I said, hoping that was something someone more than skilled in deadly combat might say.
— Tarun Shanker
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
— Evelyn Ashford
No one is ever holy without suffering.
— Evelyn Waugh
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
— Evelyn Waugh
Mr. Kent raised his brows. "What are they asking?"
"For me to heal a little girl."
"My God, the brutes, the monsters," he mocked. — Tarun Shanker
"For me to heal a little girl."
"My God, the brutes, the monsters," he mocked. — Tarun Shanker
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.
— Evelyn Waugh
So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?
Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh
Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh
When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.
— Evelyn Cullet
Do you want to change?"
"It's the only evidence of life. — Evelyn Waugh
"It's the only evidence of life. — Evelyn Waugh
An artist must be a reactionary
— Evelyn Waugh
I had been there before; I knew all about it.
— Evelyn Waugh
Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.
— Evelyn Waugh
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
— Evelyn Waugh
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
— Evelyn Waugh
Chokey cholmondley: "i sure am crazy about culture".
— Evelyn Waugh
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
— Evelyn Waugh
Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.
— Evelyn Glennie
She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.
— Evelyn Rogers
Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.
— Evelyn Waugh
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
— Evelyn Waugh
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
— Deborah Moggach
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
— Evelyn Glennie
Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn.
— Evelyn Smith
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
— Evelyn Glennie
I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
— Veronica Roth
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
— Evelyn Waugh
You shouldn't be in here!
— Evelyn Winters
I seriously have the best friends in the world.
— Evelyn Smith
building the assets of your business.
— Evelyn Ivy
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
— Evelyn Waugh
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...
— Evelyn Underhill
If it's meant to be it will happen.
— Evelyn Sciarratta
At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
— Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
— Evelyn Underhill
My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.
— Evelyn Lauder
I've kept a diary since I was 11.
— Evelyn Glennie
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
— Evelyn Glennie
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
She sighed and said, "Why not us? Who knows whether you were given this opportunity for such a time as this?"
-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal
-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal
The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.
— Evelyn Underhill
When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.
— Evelyn Ashford
Pavel Alexandrovich Romanov,
— Evelyn Skye
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.
— Evelyn Lauder
Capture me, Wade." I begged him.
"Oh, Evelyn. I have captured you from the very moment I set my eyes upon you. And you have seized me. — Lilly James
"Oh, Evelyn. I have captured you from the very moment I set my eyes upon you. And you have seized me. — Lilly James
Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
— Fannie Flagg
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
— Evelyn Waugh
Yeah I know. No one can know what you're doing or who you trust or don't trust, etc., etc.
— Evelyn Smith
I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.
— Evelyn Lauder
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
— Evelyn Glennie
I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.
— Evelyn Lauder
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
— Evelyn Waugh
Be careful. . . ." And then she let go. For even she knew there was only so much one could do to protect a winter moth drawn to an icy flame.
— Evelyn Skye
Have we found out about those losers yet?
— Evelyn Smith
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
— Evelyn Underhill
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
— Evelyn Waugh
He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.
— Evelyn Underhill
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
— Evelyn Waugh
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
— Garrison Keillor
I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
— Evelyn Rodriguez
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
— Evelyn Underhill
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
— Evelyn Underhill