Quotes About Elizabeth Fry

#1. I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Sydney Smith

#2. Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

Elizabeth Fry

#3. Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

Meister Eckhart

#4. I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

Elizabeth Fry

#5. Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.

Jessica Livingston

#6. And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him
he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

H. Beam Piper

#7. The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

Elizabeth Fry

#8. Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger, and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

#11. It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

Elizabeth Fry

#12. I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Elizabeth Fry

#13. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.

Bill Wilson

#14. When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Elizabeth Fry

#15. When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world

Gossy Ukanwoke

#16. 500 years ago Man "knew" the Earth was the center of the Universe. 500 years ago Man "knew" the Earth was flat. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

K

#17. I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not

Elizabeth Fry

#18. The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

Elizabeth Fry

#19. I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.

Daniel Quinn

#20. Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.

C.K. Walker

#21. Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Emile Zola

#22. Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Fry

#23. Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.

Robert H. Grubbs

#24. Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

Paulo Coelho