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

• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Small
  • Things
  • Small Things

• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Husband
  • Right
  • Cooking

• 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

• You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Broken
  • Horse

• Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

  

  Bob McDonnell

• In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Mind
  • Together

• If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Women
  • Hair
  • Clothes

• 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