Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

William Golding

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

William Lyon Phelps

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Zig Ziglar

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

George Edward Woodberry

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Henry George

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

Howard Schultz

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Jan Karon

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Nicolas Malebranche

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Pierre Corneille

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Rush Limbaugh

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Rumi

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

Rick Warren

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

Susan Powter

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Samuel Richardson

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

Tom Cruise