Lest Quotes

On his work with A Minor Consideration: "People on the `outside,` people who have not lived the life...`civilians` as we call them...are not equipped to deal with the masterful deceptions of former kid stars. For God`s sake, when you don`t know what to do with a former child star, call on the only group of people who DO know. We never say, `I told you so.` We never seek retribution. We do not judge lest we be judged. We simply help."

- Paul Petersen

"My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that`s helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison`s "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don`t particularly belong".

- Wentworth Miller

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

- Carl Sandburg

Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.

- Cindy Adams

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

- Robert Stevenson

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

- Claude Debussy

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

- Aaron Harang

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

- Aaron Wichman

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

- Abby Oliver

Don`t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don`t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

- Acton Gorton

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

- Adam Falk

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, `Why do you not practice what you preach?`

- Adrian Casanova

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

- Aidan Kavanagh

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

- Ali Aoun

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

- Allie Zazzali

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

- Alvina Tan

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

- Amanda Kobes

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

- Amir Attaran

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

- Amitai Sandy

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

- Andrew Baum

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

- Andrew Brust

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

- Andrew Moffat

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.

- Andrew Yaffa

presence ... reminds us of the important facts, lest they be forgotten -- the virtues of faith and the absolute need for forgiveness of one`s enemies.

- Asa Hutchinson

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

- Patrick Henry

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

- Carl Sandburg