Stead Quotes

54 quotes by 51 authors

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that… — Betty Shabazz
On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead. — Helen Hunt Jackson
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. — Henry David Thoreau
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. — Loretta Young
If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store)… — Shel Silverstein
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world… — Mark Twain
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitorâ€™s stead, the Table would crack… — C.S. Lewis
Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well,… — Toni Morrison
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left… — Robert Green Ingersoll
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,… — William Shakespeare
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for… — Margaret Atwood
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. — M.M. Kaye
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful… — Erik Larson
Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what… — Michael J. Sullivan
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives… — Eleanor Roosevelt

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