Thoughts — just mere thoughts — are as powerful as electric batteries — as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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- She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- There is nothing so nice as supposing. It’s almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- They’re a pair of young Satans. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 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
- We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The-œb- word and the -œn- word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison. – Maya Angelou
- I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit… electric shock-y? – Emmett Spain
- The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison. – Theodore Sturgeon
- A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
- Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
- Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors,kind thoughts of your friends,loving thoughts of your family,and humble thoughts of yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Its Batteries! I just know it! – Alison
- Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. – Stephen King
- Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries. Cuz that’ll mean that we’re one step closer to humanity. – Prince Ea
- I feel your pain. My vibrator needed batteries. – Wendy Byrne
- But the things in the batteries couldn’t be spiders. It just wasn’t possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind? – A Ashley Straker
- And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won’t eat up my batteries is always worth bringing. – Marie Lu
- And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won’t eat up my batteries is always worth bringing. – Marie Lu
- Oh God, can I keep you? You don’t need batteries, do you? – Barbara Elsborg
- I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a a note on it saying, toys not included. – Bernard Manning
- Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul. – Ruth Frances Long
- The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. – Ann Wigmore
- The food you eat can be either the safe & most powerful medicine or the slowest poison. – Sukhraj Dhillon
- The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison – Ann Wigmore
- Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad. – Amit Ray
- Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart. – Debasish Mridha
- Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric. – Lindsey Kelk
- Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze -” and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence. – Spider Robinson
- The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. – Steven Storm
- Liberty! — Electric word! – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- I’d say we’re all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought. – Robert Fanney
- In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. – Israel Zangwill