Susanna Moodie Quotes

What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

Susanna Moodie

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• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Health

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Enough
  • Smart

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

  

  Walter Alston
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Give

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Heart

• After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Truth

• When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Action
  • Pain
  • Hero

• I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich

• I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Time
  • Men
  • Earth

• I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

  

  Jane Jensen

• I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

  

  John Hurt
  • Pretty

• The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • Life

• You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

  

  Matthew Rhys

• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Be Happy

• Scripture tells us that in our sufferings there is glory, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Sometimes the truths of these words are hard to see. Right now, those words test us. Because the people of Dallas, people across the country, are suffering.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Character

• It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Words
  • Eat
  • Fence

• What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

  

  Elliot Cowan
  • Life
  • Question

• What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  

  Susanna Moodie
  • Words
  • Memory
  • Deeds