Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

What an incredible drug fear is.

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.