Frances Baard Quotes & Sayings

There are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance
no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability
no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit. — Maria W. Stewart

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. — Anton Chekhov

For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other — Francis Fukuyama

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party. — John Keats

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men. — Lillian Hellman

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders

Being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as if it had been forbidden. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Write about the emotions you fear the most. — Laurie Halse Anderson

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. — Cecelia Ahern

I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country. — Elizabeth McCracken

I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,- Greg — Lynsay Sands

The amount of actual time is irrelevant because the intensity of the moment is guaranteed to last. It doesn't matter because what remains and what can never be lost is a spirit. — Nick Trout