Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

Quotes to Explore
-
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
-
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
-
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
-
Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
-
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
-
In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
-
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
-
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
-
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
-
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
-
The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
-
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
-
The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
-
I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
-
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
-
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
-
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
-
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
-
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.