Mingling Quotes - Page 2

• A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

  Saadi

  Mischief, Stirring, Falsehood

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• Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

  Aristophanes

  Essence, Data, Air

  Aristophanes (1984). “Four Plays”, Plume

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• In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of the day, and it kind of trickles into nightlife and all that. People stay within their circles and there's no real mingling to be had.

  Shenae Grimes

  Real, Nightlife, Circles

  "Shenae Grimes, ‘90210’ Star, Prays You Still Like Her (And Annie)". Interview with Meredith Gillies, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2012.

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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Rivers, Water

  Hilaire Belloc (1962). “Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse”

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• Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Clouds, Centaurs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Light

  Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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• I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.

  Geert Wilders

  People, Democracy, Want

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• Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Selfish, Sensual, Honor

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Determination, Events

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.

  Michael Scott

  Brother, Hair, Hands

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• It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Political, Democracy, Economic

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Eye, Angel

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Taken, Sleep, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

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• And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

  Alison Croggon

  Wall, Men, Light

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• He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Eye, Kissing

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• Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Ocean, Twilight

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• With a gentle pressure, our lips met. His hands slipped more firmly about me, and I held myself back, not afraid, but wanting to feel everything slowly as I leaned in, tasting the wine on him, feeling the warmth of his body pressing into mine, breathing in our scents that were mingling and changing with the warmth. My hands rose to find his hair, and I relaxed into him as the silky strands brushed through my fingers. I wanted more, and I leaned into him as our lips moved against each other.

  Kim Harrison

  Wine, Breathing, Hair

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

  Jane Jacobs

  Order, Cities, Different

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.222, Vintage

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• The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Light, Three, Sun

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• Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Race, Wings

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Triumph

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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