Frances E. Willard Quotes

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Myself
  • Grace

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Grace
  • Set

• One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Never
  • Should

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Present
  • Jesus
  • Smile

• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Hate
  • Door
  • Forget

• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Should
  • Rule

• There is no special way a photograph should look.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Special

• Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Should
  • Poet
  • Modern

• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Culture
  • Should
  • Benefits

• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  

  R. J. Anderson
  • Music
  • Long
  • Alone

• The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration.

  

  Kadmi Cohen
  • Respect
  • Jesus
  • Religious

• I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Musician

• The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Moral
  • Feelings
  • Consciousness

• It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Understand
  • Books
  • Nobel Prize

• If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Should
  • Grace
  • Bicycle