Quotes of Niche - somelinesforyou

“ I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten, even by God. ”

- Robert Browning

“ No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. ”

- Thomas A. Bennett

“ No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ England with all thy faults, I love thee still — My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. ”

- William Cowper

“ No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. ”

- Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

“ A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Oh for a book and a shady nook… ”

- John Wilson

“ I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. ”

- Robert Browning

“ In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Amazement awaits us at every corner. ”

- James Broughton

“ The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. ”

- Joe Paterno

“ No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ With a tale, for sooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Our defense is still trying to find its niche. By the second half of the season I think they can be a pretty good unit. ”

- Steve King

“ Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice. ”

- John Keble

“ There is no question that people need pensions, particularly given the extended lifespan we are now experiencing. By changing Fed policies to allow interest rates to rise and encouraging people to put aside some of their earnings, we can hopefully reestablish the idea that each individual is responsible for their own pension and that government programs like Social Security are only supplemental in nature… ”

- Ben Carson

“ Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. ”

- Georges Bernanos

“ There are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ We meditate for various reasons. Peace of mind we all badly need. Therefore, when we meditate, either consciously or unconsciously we aim at peace of mind. Meditation give us peace of mind without a tranquilliser. And unlike a tranquilliser, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away… ”

- Sri Chinmoy

“ There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she has not suffered, still less a woman if she has not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. ”

- Baroness Orczy

“ The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ”

- Howard Pyle

“ The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ”

- Freeman Dyson
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