Draws Quotes - Page 37

• There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Crowds, Know How, Knows

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• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

  Paul the Apostle

  Clothes, Hair, Gold

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• Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Wife, Religion

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
  Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
  Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
  Of the imagination dominates;
  And his are all things that eschew the light.
  The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
  For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
  And the dark work, complete of preparation,
  He draws by force into the realm of light.
  Now must we hasten on to action, ere
  The scheme, and most auspicious positure
  Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
  For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dark, Journey, Light

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. i, 1798.

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• I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Expression, Feelings

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 129, 1863.

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

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• For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Knowing, Doe

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Sympathy, Inspiration, Heart

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.89

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• The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Christian, Grief

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• Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

  Angelina Grimke

  Running, Men, Equality

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• Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Life, Writing, Class

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• The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Eye, Maturity, Feet

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• The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Knowledge, Loss

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

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• For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Air, Penetrate

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.369

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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Different, Cocoons

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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• All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fate, Issues, Veils

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ignorance, Men, Superficial Knowledge

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Japan

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• President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

  David Letterman

  Reading, August, President

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• To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Circles, Envy, Bitter

  "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

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• Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Hands, Law, Tyrants

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• Love's heralds should be thoughts,
  Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
  Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
  Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
  And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wind, Wings

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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