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.

Frances E. Willard

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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

• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Like
  • Should
  • Cooking

• 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
  • May
  • Love
  • 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

• A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting
  • Should
  • Deeds

• When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Moments
  • Eye

• What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Passion
  • Quality
  • Heaven

• The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Forgotten

• 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