Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Quotes to Explore
-
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
-
When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
-
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
-
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
-
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
-
I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’
-
People deserve to see a governor who is hustling every day.
-
I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically.
-
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.
-
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
-
The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally achieved after the Central Bank switched to a floating national currency exchange rate.
-
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
-
A time comes when silence is betrayal.
-
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
-
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
-
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
-
Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.
-
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
-
In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
-
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
-
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
