Frances Bergen Quotes

Italy's siren call lures us more and more. ~ Frances Mayes

Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen's self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons. ~ Frances Hardinge

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath. ~ David Bergen

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause. ~ Frances McCall Rosenbluth

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team. ~ Frances Beinecke

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her. ~ Frances Hardinge

She was not undamaged, however, and she knew it. No food or drink had passed her lips, but she had drunk deep of the Truth, and now it could not be flushed out of her system with bitter cordials, or washed from her skin, or picked out of her hair. ~ Frances Hardinge

As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health. ~ Frances Beinecke

... Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

The yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown! ... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish? ~ Frances Wright

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.' ~ Erich Bergen

Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it. ~ Frances Allen

Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one. ~ Jaye Frances

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top. ~ Frances O'Grady

Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities. ~ Frances Moore Lappe

You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money ... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people. ~ Frances Moore Lappe

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. ~ Frances O'Grady

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going. ~ Bergen Evans

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little. ~ Candice Bergen

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just beecause I never have any trials. (Sara Crewe, A Little Princess) ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge as representatives for all mankind. ~ Frances FitzGerald

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years. ~ Frances Mayes

Another writer argued in an 1895 issue of the Cosmopolitan that by riding a bicycle, a woman would "become mistress of herself," transformed into a "rational, useful being restored to health and sanity. ~ Frances E. Willard

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible. ~ Frances Moore Lappe

In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor. ~ Frances Mayes

Love understands love; it needs no talk. ~ Frances Ridley Havergal

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities. ~ Frances G. Wickes

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me! ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam. ~ Frances Wright

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ Frances Farmer

Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work. ~ Frances Hardinge

What can I say? I'm like a playground water fountain, I live to wet people's pants. ~ Frances Winkler

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul. ~ Ruth Frances Long

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm growing fatter," said Mary, ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs! she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. ~ Frances Farmer