Curious Quotes - Page 37

• Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
  With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
  Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
  Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
  But all to please and sate the curious taste?

  John Milton

  Nature, Hands, Sea

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents saying they showed my video to their kids because they were complaining. It is the hope that that parent will go a bit deeper and know that ultimately Nick actually puts his hope into something bigger than himself. He puts it in Jesus Christ.

  Nick Vujicic

  Jesus, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Light, Air

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• The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

  Hosea Ballou

  Thoughtful, Heaven, Earth

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• The over curious are not over wise.

  Philip Massinger

  Wise, Curiosity

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• In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

  Alice Meynell

  Party, Rights, Blood

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• ... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

  Margaret Deland

  Names, Evil, Moments

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• It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

  Celia Green

  Individual, Results, Brands

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Christmas, Heart, Might

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• War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  War, Fall, Son

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1915). “Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front”

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• Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

  Joanna Baillie

  Eye, Mind, Half

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• Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Men, Curiosity, Instruction

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.

  Paris Barclay

  Darren, Cases, Enjoy

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Italian, Philadelphia

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• I am curious about grownups, not children.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Children, Grownups

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drug, Vision, Records

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• Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

  Anton Zeilinger

  Motivational, Real, Technology

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• What is the little one thinking about?
  Very wonderful things, no doubt;
  Unwritten history!
  Unfathomed mystery!
  Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
  And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
  As if his head were as full of kinks
  And curious riddles as any sphinx!

  J. G. Holland

  Thinking, Laughing, Doubt

  J. G. HOLLAND (1863). “BITTER-SWEET A POEM”, p.26

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• For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Opposites, Interesting

  "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.

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• Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Fate, Immortality

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Giving, Praise, Criticize

  Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

  Rosita Forbes

  Singing, Sound, Camels

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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