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?

Anna Cora Mowatt

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

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• 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
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

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

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

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

  

  Feist
  • Together
  • You
  • Better

• 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
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Forever

• 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
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• 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
  • Green
  • Twilight

• 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
  • Long

• 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
  • Up

• 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
  • Mother
  • 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
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• 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
  • Future
  • Peace

• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Character
  • Age

• It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Up
  • Different

• Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Freedom
  • Fighting

• I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Top
  • Out
  • Fights

• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  

  James Cagney
  • World
  • Different
  • War

• Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Mean
  • Player
  • Struggle

• 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