Frances Wright Quotes

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Frances Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852

Topics

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I love looking back at my old pictures and pictures of my grandma and my mom and see how they expressed themselves at different parts of their lives, and it just tells an interesting story, so why not play around?

Jillian Hervey

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I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Robert Herjavec

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All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

Amitava Kumar

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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

Amor Towles

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Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

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It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.

Stewart Lee

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I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Tony Visconti

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The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Robert D. Kaplan

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I never thought we'd live in an age where we'd get to 2008's 'Iron Man,' which I think is a perfect movie.

Rob Liefeld

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I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

Rosamund Pike

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Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Russell Simmons

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I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

Joshua Waitzkin

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