Top 68 Quotes About Mary Ward
#1. When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.
Samuel Palmer
#2. The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.
Mary Augusta Ward
#3. Our strength must be tested," he whispered, "for us to know it's still there. And I will always be your warrior, Mary mine. Always and forever.
J.R. Ward
#4. Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
Mary Augusta Ward
#5. Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
Mary Augusta Ward
#6. Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.
J.R. Ward
#7. City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
Mary Augusta Ward
#8. The great thing about family, Mary mused, was that they showed up. When it really mattered, your family, be they blood or by choice, were always where you needed them to be, even though they had busy lives and jobs and children of their own.
J.R. Ward
#9. Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be ... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.
J.R. Ward
#10. Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is
Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
Mary Augusta Ward
#11. Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!
Mary Augusta Ward
#12. Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
Mary Augusta Ward
#13. Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey.
J.R. Ward
#14. It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Mary Augusta Ward
#15. The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
Mary Augusta Ward
#16. Fine, good, Mary thought. Then how about dragging your skinny ass out of here and making sure your replacement is an ugly, two-toothed gorgon in a muumuu.
J.R. Ward
#17. There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta Ward
#18. English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Mary Augusta Ward
#19. In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary Augusta Ward
#20. That's so sweet." He sighed again. "Jeez, I feel sorry for Bits, though." Mary lifted her head again. "Why?" "BECAUSE SHE IS NEVER DATING - " "Rhage, seriously. You gotta give that a rest. . . .
J.R. Ward
#21. But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.
Mary Jane Ward
#22. Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.
Mary Allsebrook
#23. To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine
J.R. Ward
#24. As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary Augusta Ward
#25. The strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
Mary Augusta Ward
#26. Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
Mary Augusta Ward
#27. I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
Mary Augusta Ward
#28. All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
Mary Augusta Ward
#29. There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
Mary Augusta Ward
#30. One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Mary Augusta Ward
#31. How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Mary Augusta Ward
#32. She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue.
But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.
J.R. Ward
#33. Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
Mary Augusta Ward
#34. I'm glad you like him," he murmured, his hands tugging up her shirt. "Because the two of us are yours. For as long as you'll have us."
"That would be eternally," she said as she let herself go. And reveled in all the love.
J.R. Ward
#35. A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
Mary Augusta Ward
#36. Being with Mary was different because ... he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her.
The beast wanted her, too.
The beast wanted out so it could take her.
J.R. Ward
#37. My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
Mary Augusta Ward
#39. It would be a duty that I would seek to fulfill all the nights I am upon this earth. Mary
J.R. Ward
#40. Mary is ... different to me. I'm not going to pretend I understand why. All I know is, she's a pounding in my chest that I can't ignore ... hell, that I don't want to ignore.
J.R. Ward
#41. Rhage!" She laughed some more. "You brought me out here just to-"
He started kissing her mouth and putting his hands around her waist. "Outcome Engineer. You knew it when you mated me" ~ Rhage & Mary
'The Shadows' Page 446
J.R. Ward
#42. Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
Mary Augusta Ward
#43. For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
Mary Augusta Ward
#44. To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...
Mary Augusta Ward
#45. On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.
Mary Doria Russell
#46. But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Mary Augusta Ward
#47. For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary Augusta Ward
#48. Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
Mary Jane Ward
#49. When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
Mary Jane Ward
#50. A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
Mary Augusta Ward
#51. It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward
#52. A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Mary Augusta Ward
#53. We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
Mary Augusta Ward
#54. Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
Mary Augusta Ward
#55. Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
Mary Jane Ward
#57. Learn the lesson of your own pain
learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul
in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
Mary Augusta Ward
#58. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward
#59. We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
Mary Augusta Ward
#60. Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
Mary Augusta Ward
#62. My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
Mary Augusta Ward
#63. Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.
Mary Jane Ward
#65. I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
Mary Augusta Ward
#66. The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...
Mary Augusta Ward
#67. I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Mary Augusta Ward
#68. So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
Mary Augusta Ward
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