Quotes of Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

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“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ I don't think you can define love. ”

- Harry Styles

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ”

- Joyce Brothers

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Eyes not only see but reveal secrets that hidden within our very soul, as You and I stroll in this world in search for our true and better selves." Morco ”

- Jeff Morco

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet