Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!Anna Letitia Barbauld
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
J. C. Ryle -
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
Naomie Harris -
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
Maggie Smith -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
Mandy Patinkin -
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
Rand Paul -
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht -
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Rachel Kushner -
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Caitlyn Jenner -
When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
LaMarr Woodley
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
Nancy Friday -
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney -
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Francesca Annis -
I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
Nafisa Joseph -
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz -
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Edmund Spenser -
Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
Elias Canetti -
Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.
Oswald Chambers -
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Anna Letitia Barbauld