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Quotes About Stead

IF YOU can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semiattached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has.
~ Darrell Huff
Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
~ Christina Stead
Best to avoid morbid thoughts, Ursula counselled, advice that would stand him in good stead for the next three years. For the rest of his life, in fact.
~ Kate Atkinson
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
~ Rebecca Stead
What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.
~ William Thomas Stead
In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.
~ Christina Stead
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
~ James Joyce
About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
~ Christina Stead
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
~ Joshua Slocum
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not
~ William Shakespeare
Among the smaller gentry his London experience stood him in good stead;
~ Winston Graham
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
~ James Joyce
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
I've changed my mind," through harsh, whistling breaths. "I think I'll make her into my pet in your stead." "Sahara!" A rage of sound. "I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!" They were the last words she heard before her mind went black.
~ Nalini Singh