Ann Wroe Quotes

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

Ann Wroe

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• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• Biography lends to death a new terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • New
  • Biography

• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Believe
  • Souls
  • Heresy

• Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lose
  • Souls
  • Romance

• True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Years
  • Young
  • Souls

• If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fear
  • Bold
  • Souls

• Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Life
  • Design
  • Souls

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Lives

• To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Fate

• There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

  

  Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Life
  • Writer
  • Biography

• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Time
  • Healing
  • Souls

• We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • High
  • Souls

• To generous souls every task is noble.

  

  Euripides
  • Souls
  • Task
  • Noble

• When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

  

  Euripides
  • Fans
  • Souls
  • Compose

• Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

  

  Euripides
  • Souls
  • Friendships
  • Mortal

• Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Heart
  • Souls
  • Height

• Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Focus
  • Animal

• Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Hurt

• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  

  Euripides
  • Meaning
  • Gods
  • Toil

• I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

  

  Ann Wroe
  • Souls
  • Biography
  • Capturing