Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes

#1. Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

Anna Cora Mowatt

#2. The more aspiration is partial realization.

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#3. Pity's tears are spontaneous.

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#4. Stay with me."

"Forever.

Mitch Albom

#5. Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

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#6. Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

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#7. Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?

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#8. To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

Isaac Asimov

#9. Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

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#10. There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

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#11. The Olympics are coming ... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Susan Estrich

#12. Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,
a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

Anna Cora Mowatt

#13. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.

Joseph Conrad

#14. Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.

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#15. Now, you tell me, if Trevor Mayson was inside you, asking you to live with him, what would you do? Exactly.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#16. Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

Anna Cora Mowatt