Felicia Hemans Quotes

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Felicia Hemans

• Long
• Joy
• Suffering
• Deep
• Silence
• Strength

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• I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Like
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  • Childhood

• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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  • Day
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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Down

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Evil

• We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Surprise
  • Technique

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Small

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"

  

  W. Eugene Hansen
  • God
  • Real
  • Remember

• There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Long
  • Together
  • Magic

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering