Edwin Thumboo Quotes

Once
There was a quiet island,
With a name.
You must believe me
When I say that sunlight,
Impure but beautiful,
Broke upon the bay, silvered
The unrepentant, burning moon. ~ Edwin Thumboo

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. ~ Edwin Markham

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history. ~ Edwin Starr

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever. ~ Taylor Nadeau

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

The game taught me the game. ~ Edwin Lefevre

The great spirals ... apparently lie outside our stellar system. ~ Edwin Powell Hubble

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

At the heart of the cyclone
tearing the sky
And flinging the clouds
and the towers by
Is a place of central calm;
So here in the roar of mortal things,
I have a place where my spirit sings,
In the hollow of God's palm. ~ Edwin Markham

In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, men have grown inconceivably lonely. We scan the time scale and the mechanisms of life itself for portents and signs of the invisible. As the only thinking mammals on the planet - perhaps the only thinking animals in the entire sidereal universe - the burden of consciousness has grown heavy upon us. We watch the stars, but the signs are uncertain. We uncover the bones of the past and seek for our origins. There is a path there, but it appears to wander. The vagaries of the road may have a meaning, however; it is thus we torture ourselves.... Loren Eiseley, 1946... ~ James Edwin Gunn

All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State. ~ Edwin A. Abbott

Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. ~ Edwin Way Teale

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. ~ Billy Connolly

There is no caste in blood. ~ Edwin Arnold

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods ... ~ Edwin Black

It's a beautiful life, just as advertised. ~ Edwin McCain

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's party. At Banks's party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets. ~ Edwin C. Bearss

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three. ~ Edwin M. Stanton

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. ~ Edwin Arnold

In One Dimensions, did not a moving Point produce a Line with two terminal points?
In two Dimensions, did not a moving Line produce a Square wit four terminal points?
In Three Dimensions, did not a moving Square produce - did not the eyes of mine behold it - that blessed being, a Cube, with eight terminal points?
And in Four Dimensions, shall not a moving Cube - alas, for Analogy, and alas for the Progress of Truth if it be not so - shall not, I say the motion of a divine Cube result in a still more divine organization with sixteen terminal points?
Behold the infallible confirmation of the Series, 2, 4, 8, 16: is not this a Geometrical Progression? Is not this - if I might qupte my Lord's own words - "Strictly according to Analogy"?
Again, was I not taught by my Lord that as in a Line there are two bonding points, and in a Square there are four bounding Lines, so in a Cube there must be six bounding Squares? Behold once more the confirming Series: 2, 4, 6: is not this an Arithmetical Progression? And consequently does it not of necessity follow that the more divine offspring of the divine Cube in the Land of Four Dimensions, must have eight bounding Cubes: and is not this also, as my Lord has taught me to believe, "strictly according to analogy"? ~ Edwin A. Abbott

We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told or ever could be. ~ Edwin Robinson

The geographer and politician Edwin Brooks argued more than 40 years ago that what we had to avoid was a dystopian future of a 'crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth buttressed by stark force and endlessly threatened by desperate men in the global ghettoes'.2 These ~ Paul Rogers

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. ~ Edwin M. Stanton

Up with skirts, down with pants!' ~ Edwin Edwards

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ~ Edwin Way Teale

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it. ~ Edwin Land

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field? ~ Edwin Land

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~ Edwin Way Teale

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before. ~ Edwin Feulner

The important task of government, you see, is to keep conditions stable, to hold down disturbances and unrest, to maintain itself, and the best way to do that is to give everybody the opportunity to do what they want - except change things. ~ James Edwin Gunn

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers ~ Edwin Hutchins

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy. ~ James Edwin Gunn

The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. ~ Edwin Arnold

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple