Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes

Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?

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• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

  

  Feist
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• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• Politics won't allow for the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?

  

  Walter Scott
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• They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational,Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Feeling
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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Justice

• Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

  

  Charles Darwin
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• We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
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• As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
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• My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.

  

  Bernice King
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  • Strong
  • Wife

• I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

  

  Libby Trickett
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• Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • World
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• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

  

  Doug Ducey
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• I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don't laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Funny
  • Connection

• I know all beyond High Park's a desert to you.

  

  George Etherege
  • High
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• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Time
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

  

  Doug Ose
  • People
  • Drug

• I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Struggle
  • Evils
  • Mortal