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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Ad...
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As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.
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Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, ...
BARACK OBAMA
You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in e...
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‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
EDWARD R. MURROW
To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g...
THOMAS PAINE
In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The...
BILL CLINTON
يا راكعين لأمريكا , أنا بريء منكم
ناجي العلي
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA
I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
PRINCESS DIANA
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
PRINCESS DIANA
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good f...
OWEN GLENDOWER
And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu...
OWEN GLENDOWER
Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
OWEN GLENDOWER
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse ...
QUEEN VICTORIA
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA
Everybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a ver...
QUEEN VICTORIA
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through ot...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality...
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Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stak...
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There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil source...
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I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing e...
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Violence in our schools can never be tolerated. When children pass through the schoolhouse door, the...
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Our ability to turn over control to a peaceful and sovereign Iraqi government is an integral part of...
ELIZABETH DOLE
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Husse...
ELIZABETH DOLE
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we wi...
ELIZABETH DOLE
I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but I do not feel you need an Uzi or an assault weap...
ELIZABETH DOLE
Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.
ELIZABETH DOLE
We aim to give a 'wake-up call' to businesses, to alert them to the fact that the next 'fair-haired ...
ELIZABETH DOLE
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul, ...
ELIZABETH DOLE
I was honored to recommend Frank Whitney and am very pleased with his nomination.
ELIZABETH DOLE
Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far fro...
ELIZABETH DOLE
I would appreciate any help you can give.
ELIZABETH DOLE
What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you ar...
ELIZABETH DOLE
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
ELIZABETH DOLE
My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earne...
ELIZABETH DOLE
We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not ...
BOB DOLE
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and ...
BOB DOLE
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
BOB DOLE
I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
BOB DOLE
We got the across-the-board cut and the kiddy credit, and those are the two most important things to...
BOB DOLE
Seniors must begin to understand what the new Medicare drug benefit means to them personally, and be...
BOB DOLE
Neither the United States nor any other party can impose a solution,
BOB DOLE
Providing seniors with the peace of mind that they will be able to get the medicine they need, when ...
BOB DOLE
I've never discussed Whitewater ... and I'm not discussing Whitewater now.
BOB DOLE
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-president...
BOB DOLE
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thi...
BOB DOLE
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
BOB DOLE
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clint...
BOB DOLE
Think I'll win. Could be big.
BOB DOLE
If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll g...
BOB DOLE
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
BOB DOLE
Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.
BOB DOLE
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral cou...
BOB DOLE
No words can adequately convey the sadness felt by all Americans over this act of unmitigated evil.
BOB DOLE
If I were present in the Senate I would vote for ratification of the CWC [Chemical Weapons Conventio...
BOB DOLE
Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility: the constituent has a problem, ...
BOB DOLE
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when y...
BOB DOLE
We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
BOB DOLE
Well, there's no gender gap,
BOB DOLE
Set that Turk free
BOB DOLE
Oh, well, that's just Bill Clinton.
BOB DOLE
I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or ...
BOB DOLE
They should have told him that [the fence he fell through on a campaign stop] was not a metaphor. He...
BOB DOLE
First of all, it is a loan,
BOB DOLE
It's a massive, massive, massive program. All Americans eligible for Medicare will qualify. I think ...
BOB DOLE
If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You&...
BOB DOLE
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
BOB DOLE
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
BOB DOLE
pretext for intervention in northern Iraq by Iran and Iraq.
BOB DOLE
They're going to have a choice of at least two plans if their plan they have now is better, well, th...
BOB DOLE
provides the best opportunity to put the people of Kosovo on a course of self-rule and liberty.
BOB DOLE
I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative ...
BOB DOLE
I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be...
BOB DOLE
I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United...
BOB DOLE
It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
BOB DOLE
Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.
BOB DOLE
I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats an...
BOB DOLE
I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
BOB DOLE
I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
BOB DOLE
Think I'll win. Could be big.
BOB DOLE
We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
BOB DOLE
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
BOB DOLE
President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate;...
BOB DOLE
Life is very important to Americans.
BOB DOLE
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only wh...
BOB DOLE
You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
BOB DOLE
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
BOB DOLE
Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
BOB DOLE
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're...
BOB DOLE
Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
CHARLES FLETCHER DOLE
I wouldn't overestimate the pre-election polls too much.
BOHUMIL DOLEžAL
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN
I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS
A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN
The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN
I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN
Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY
I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II
If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE
Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY
perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY
You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY
Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG
Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
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The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
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You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN
I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN