Frances E. Willard Quotes

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Frances E. Willard

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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Magazine

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • She
  • Exist
  • Moss

• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Childhood
  • Hiding
  • Drop

• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Women

• As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Courage

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• I never remember my parents having an argument.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Remember
  • Parents

• There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Country

• I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Silence

• I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

  

  David Stras
  • Good

• I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Life

• I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Game
  • Golf

• Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

  

  Conrad Hilton
  • Great
  • God
  • Charity

• There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Difficulty

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• God is action - let us be like God.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • God
  • Action