Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

Maria Edgeworth

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• It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Stress

• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Small
  • Things
  • Small Things

• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Always
  • Justice
  • Facts

• Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Movies

• It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • May
  • Matter
  • Now

• My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Father
  • Football
  • Loved

• In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Wind

• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House

• Nothing is yet in its true form.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Horse
  • Princess

• You are my fire the one desire<brb>Believe when I say I want it that way

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • Believe
  • Desire
  • Fire

• If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Long
  • Song
  • Calm

• People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • House
  • English

• If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Women

• Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Up
  • World
  • Explore

• For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Age

• I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Different
  • Character
  • Strong

• I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Up
  • Car

• She touched his sleeve, drawing her hand away at once, as if burned by the contact, but with practiced subtlety.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Contact
  • Practiced
  • Sleeve

• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  

  Wally George
  • Different
  • Business
  • Kids

• As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • Storm
  • Recovery

• Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

  

  Maria Edgeworth