Ungenial Quotes & Sayings

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. — John Krasinski

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper. — Robert Southey

President Eisenhower, like many Americans, is a very fervent believer in a very vague religion. — Kevin M. Kruse

It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her sadder self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane. — Thomas Hardy

There is more in one of their mercies to comfort them, than in all their troubles to deject them. All your losses are but as the loss of a farthing to a prince, — John Flavel

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad. — Claire Tomalin

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. — Thomas Hardy

Faith is spiritual, and God who is a spirit delights in it for that reason. Years of prayer-saying, and church-going, or chapel-going, and ceremonies, and performances, may only be an abomination in the sight of Jehovah; but a glance from the eye of true faith is spiritual and it is therefore dear to Him. "The Father seeketh such to worship him." Look you first to the inner man, and to the spiritual, and the rest will then follow in due course. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing ... We're f - -ing movie stars. — Dave Grohl

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story. — Avijeet Das