Draws Quotes - Page 35

• As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Fire, Flames

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.55, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Faces, Groups

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• Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Men, Honor

  Joseph Addison (1761). “Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals”, p.307

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• If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Virginia, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this
  way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I
  will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

  Ovid

  Love, Hate, Struggle

  Ovid (1977). “Heroides and Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

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• I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Talking, President, Speech

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

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• Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

  Margaret Thatcher

  Names, Justice, Together

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

  John Donne

  Sticks, Hook, Benefits

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

  Herman Melville

  Butterfly, Character, Creativity

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.70, Northwestern University Press

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• And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
  But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
  Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They
  are!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Money, Art, Stars

  "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 9 (1892)

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• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sex, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The day's at end and there's nowhere to go,
  Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
  Get up and once again politely lying
  Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Lying, Fire

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Heart, Play

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

  Knut Hamsun

  Soul, Able, Language

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• For little boys are rancorous
  When robbed of any myth,
  And spiteful and cantankerous
  To all their kin and kith.
  But little girls can draw conclusions
  And profit from their lost illusions.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Solitude, Different

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

  Jerome Cady

  England And America, Russia, Enemy

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• [F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar.

  Bjork

  Sexy, Flirting, Car

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Teacher, Thinking, Should Have

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.261, U of Nebraska Press

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• I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

  Marion Bartoli

  Earth, Normal, Painting

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• Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'

  Pope Francis

  Men, Names, Differences

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• Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

  Peter Block

  Together, Answers

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• I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.

  Judith Rascoe

  Death, War, Moral

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