Elizabeth Ann Seton Quotes

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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• Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Voice

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Necessary

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• 'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Fate

• Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to hear I love you.Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to know you care.She wants to know she's needed,She needs to be held tightSomewhere other than the night.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • She
  • Night

• If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Support
  • Revolution

• My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Military

• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  

  Larry Wall

• Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Catholic

• I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Song

• Honor is the reward of virtue.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Honor

• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Up
  • May
  • Society

• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Pain
  • Distance
  • Admit

• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  

  John Linder
  • Believe
  • War
  • Today

• I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Problems
  • Escape
  • Demon

• Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Heaven
  • Afflictions