Quotes of Interpose - somelinesforyou

“ Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to "meddle not". ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches. ”

- Lord Boyd Orr

“ Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing,... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism. ”

- Tony Blair

“ I never use notes, they interfere with me. ”

- Ken Blanchard

“ Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich? ”

- John Ashbery

“ I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. ”

- Unknown

“ The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. ”

- Unknown

“ Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ”

- Edward Everett Hale

“ I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ”

- Unknown

“ Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. ”

- Hannah More

“ How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

- John Wooden

“ Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills. ”

- A. B. Simpson

“ Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ I think an Interposing providence hath been evident in all the events that Necessarily led us to what we are. I mean Independant states but for what purpose, whether to make us a great Empire, or to make our Ruin more compleat, the issue only can determine. ”

- Abraham Clark
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