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Eleanor Clift

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JENNIFER MERCHANT There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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RAJIV SAXENA A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party l...
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JANO CABRERA Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive,...
CHARLES WILLIAMS Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive,...
CHARLES WILLIAMS I grew up a Democrat. I've supported members in both parties. I've always voted for a person, not a ...
HEATH SHULER Of course, both major parties today seek to serve the national interest. They would do so in order t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliche...
NEWT GINGRICH The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE [Yet both parties' campaign strategists believe Latino party affiliations and voting patterns can be...
MICHAEL ALVAREZ Justice Scalia, Congress did not pick on the parties. The party and the candidates are one in the sa...
TED OLSON ... Race is an issue inside both parties. Both parties have to examine their souls in this.
CLIFF MAY The easiest way to be the prettiest girl at a party is to rig the guest list.
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BRUCE AUST If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.
TORI SPELLING Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendanc...
TIM O'REILLY I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movemen...
MARCO RUBIO Anybody who is in this profession knows that every patient on that list has a reason to be on the li...
PAUL SILVA A leading party with less than 30 seats is much more dependent on partner parties.
YORAM PERI I believe women have played major roles, both tangible or intangible, in the imperial family.
EMPEROR AKIHITO Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the othe...
FRANK LAUTENBERG There is still a worry about a possible major correction on Wall Street in the short term.
EUGENE LAW President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I ...
ANDREW YANG It was civil and the parties were reasonable. But I could tell there were strong feelings on both si...
RICK DANTZLER The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, a...
GEORGE SELDES But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.
PRINCE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT We're coming into the convention united behind the ticket with the governor, Tom McClintock and Bruc...
DUF SUNDHEIM Special election ballots do not list the party affiliations of candidates, ... Should no candidate i...
ERIC CLARK I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
SEX AND THE CITY I think [the New Democratic Party is] a good alternative to the two main parties.
CAROL BROWN Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typ...
BRAD DAY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM We do make donations to both parties, and we think it's appropriate to be a part of the political pr...
LAURA DUDA Voluntary binding arbitration, if accepted, would end the strike immediately. Both parties would agr...
JESSE GREENER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
PATTY DUKE It's going to be a win-win situation for both parties.
WILLIAM MURRAY People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are st...
ELEANOR CLIFT Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment,
ELEANOR CLIFT It's obvious that the local and state authorities were overwhelmed... and that the federal governmen...
ELEANOR CLIFT There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of governm...
ELEANOR CLIFT I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
ELEANOR CLIFT It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
ELEANOR CLIFT If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
ELEANOR CLIFT If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contem...
ELEANOR CLIFT Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who ...
ELEANOR CLIFT Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the exte...
ELEANOR CLIFT Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
ELEANOR CLIFT Both parties have demonstrated a willingness to resolve this dispute. They have agreed, at my invita...
JOE FONTANA If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I think that the Republican candidate should consider seeking the candidacy of the Reform Party ... ...
DAN QUAYLE I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the c...
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CHRIS SACCA Every leader in both chambers in both parties has a leadership PAC,
ROGER WICKER Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in ...
WARREN RUDMAN Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold W...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI It could potentially have a small, short-term impact on gold, depending on what they decide to do wi...
VICTOR FLORES Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron...
EMMA WATSON A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
PENN JILLETTE Tell me where the party is-I want to miss it.
MARTY RUBIN It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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JIM O'DAY A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
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DAVE PHELPS Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, bu...
TERRY PRATCHETT This is proof that if both parties are committed to the process, a solution beneficial to everyone c...
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LT. TODDNIE CHERRY You have to be on the list. Once you're on the list, you can get in.
DARREL NG My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE We do not require ID for children because there are no children on the list. If it's a child, ticket...
CARRIE HARMON I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ...
ELLIS KRAUSS You have to have a long-term outlook on both. But we're optimistic that we can get both of them done...
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People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are st...
ELEANOR CLIFT Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment,
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ELEANOR CLIFT There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
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ELEANOR CLIFT I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
ELEANOR CLIFT It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
ELEANOR CLIFT If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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ELEANOR CLIFT Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the exte...
ELEANOR CLIFT Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
ELEANOR CLIFT Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT Even if they have plenty of capacity now they might own another 200 or 300 acres and get a permit no...
JAMES CLIFT The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a...
MONTGOMERY CLIFT This opens the door, and the last thing we need is more out-of-state trash.
JAMES CLIFT Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT A man should be what he can do'
MONTGOMERY CLIFT It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmar...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing every day that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla...
ELEANOR DUSE Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and...
ELEANOR EARLY You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a...
ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
ELEANOR CATTON A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create...
ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor...
ELEANOR CATTON Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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