Sedley Quotes & Sayings

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness. — Frederick Lenz

Being willing to feel my pain isn't another strategy I can use to avoid my pain. It is genuinely accepting that sometimes stuff really sucks. Sometimes life can really hurt. Sometimes this world isn't what I signed up for. Sometimes I still feel like I would do anything not to have these feelings and these thoughts... Willingness to allow suffering to be there is hard. Damn hard. And often frightening too. And the only thing harder is not being willing to allow suffering to be there. — Ben Sedley

Lovers, like dying men, may well
At first disorder'd be,
Since none alive can truly tell
What Fortune they must see. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on. — Justin Hawkins

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Figure out what you care about... and then care about it — Ben Sedley

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal. — Albert Einstein

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. — Constance Baker Motley

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. — Jenna Bush

Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Miss Jemima had been; for, consider, it was but one minute that she had left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time. Nay, with some persons those awes and terrors of youth last for ever and ever. I know, for instance, an old gentleman of sixty-eight, who said to me one morning at breakfast, with a very agitated countenance, 'I dreamed last night that I was flogged by Dr Raine.' Fancy had carried him back five-and-fifty years in the course of that evening. Dr Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, 'Boy, take down your pants ... ' Well, well ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs. — Charles Kelley

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he's never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn't actually want what she thought she wanted all along.
pg. 324 of Bewitching — Alex Flinn

When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Only inexperienced demon looks horrific to mankind. — Toba Beta

Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone. — Alex Day

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. — Susan Holloway Scott

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words. — Friedrich Frobel

Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations — Sunday Adelaja