FastSaying

We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.


Elizabeth Esty

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunter...
ERIC SWALWELL There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come wit...
RANDI WEINGARTEN As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christi...
BOBBY JINDAL Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is def...
MICHAEL BADNARIK If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch ...
JOHN DINGELL We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think t...
EDWARD SNOWDEN So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reachin...
JERRY GARCIA I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore...
MATT BEVIN I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
EVAN MCMULLIN The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
FLOYD ABRAMS You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are ...
MICHAEL STEELE I support the Second Amendment and believe strongly that families around the country have a right to...
CHET EDWARDS You run smack dab into the conflict between protecting the safety of children versus protecting the ...
LAURA BENSON Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well ...
TREVOR PHILLIPS The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA wo...
THOM TILLIS The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protec...
THOMAS JEFFERSON As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's...
JEFF MILLER If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's ...
BARBARA BOXER I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. ...
RICK YUNE The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't hav...
JANET ECHELMAN The firearm is merely an efficient instrument that creates balance in an unbalance situation. ~Mark ...
MARK GAGNON The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is tro...
HANK JOHNSON I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should...
GABRIEL E. GOMEZ Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed b...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have...
MO IBRAHIM Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse...
RACHEL JOYCE If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be...
BARBARA BOXER Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and...
KATHRYN MINSHEW What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, whi...
JIM JORDAN A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this...
CHARLTON HESTON The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who ...
NOAM CHOMSKY After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abi...
ALAN GOTTLIEB I have the unique ability to be on the forefront to deal with issues such as traditional values; the...
ED BRYANT We will continue to consider all available options to us in order to protect the rights of Sovereign...
PETER LANGERMAN The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks...
CHARLES DANCE I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible...
JAMES C. DOBSON The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha...
DANA CARVEY We are disappointed with the decision to grant parole, and we will continue our effort to protect th...
WALTER REED We need to be able to communicate to our members and gun owners in any given state and to suggest th...
CHRIS COX I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers...
TED CRUZ The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...
JEFF COOPER They don?t need to own the structure to request grant funds. We want to help both business owners an...
EDDIE BUMBAUGH A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people t...
JAMES MADISON Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our ch...
FRANCES BEINECKE We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly start...
ELIZABETH WARREN The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
JEFF DUNCAN When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as ...
JORGE BUCAY We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
ANDREW VACHSS The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of o...
JANE D. HULL Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don&...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
EMMANUEL JAL I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those thin...
MICK FLEETWOOD There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accid...
TED NUGENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemploy...
AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juri...
ROBERT ZUBRIN We wish we did not have to take this action, but we must protect the First Amendment rights of video...
BO ANDERSEN Hatred and conflict are often rooted in differences between people of different races and religions....
JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and th...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means...
STEVE STOCKMAN If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
LARRY FLYNT We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates a...
JIM RENACCI In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and...
ELIZABETH ESTY We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can...
PAUL LEPAGE Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.
ALAN COLMES What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system...
B. R. AMBEDKAR I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build...
SHIRIN NESHAT I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate ag...
PAM BONDI We just disagree that the business community's private property rights trumps my Second Amendment ri...
REP. DENNIS BAXLEY The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn abo...
JACK HANNA Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it er...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn&#...
MARCO RUBIO Peking welcomed me with tremendous parades and gun salutes. The people with me are proud of me, prou...
SUKARNO The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
TED CRUZ People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We...
ELLEN DEGENERES We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor...
DENIS KEARNEY It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
AHMED BEN BELLA If we don't know our rights, then the government can easily stop those rights ... knowing the First ...
CLAY CALVERT We absolutely respect our customers' right to choose what they wish to read and buy and we support t...
BETH BINGHAM We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the oth...
JONATHAN NOLAN If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON We need to be concerned about young people . . . if we don't protect them, how are we going to prote...
HANK AARON I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need t...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the...
ROBERT MUELLER If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and...
BILL NELSON I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I ...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn...
EZRA MILLER We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect...
BURGESS OWENS You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight...
BARRY GOLDWATER We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time...
PHILIP PULLMAN We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree...
LUKE SCOTT I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I kn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

More Elizabeth Esty

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our s...
ELIZABETH ESTY In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and...
ELIZABETH ESTY Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country ...
ELIZABETH ESTY We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our...
ELIZABETH ESTY Although we can never fully repay our veterans, on Veterans Day we thank our veterans for their self...
ELIZABETH ESTY We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed b...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big b...
ELIZABETH ESTY We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise...
ELIZABETH ESTY I am proud to be named a Defender of Children by First Focus, and I will continue to call on Congres...
ELIZABETH ESTY We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license t...
ELIZABETH ESTY There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CD...
ELIZABETH ESTY The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs o...
ELIZABETH ESTY Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
ELIZABETH ESTY As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights,...
ELIZABETH ESTY Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more ...
ELIZABETH ESTY I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.
ELIZABETH ESTY It should scare every voter in the 5th District that a powerful D.C. lobbyist is trying to install a...
ELIZABETH ESTY It's important for our state to expand manufacturing jobs.
ELIZABETH ESTY Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 American...
ELIZABETH ESTY Today, I heard directly from Connecticut workers about the importance of strong, predictable federal...
ELIZABETH ESTY Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and a...
ELIZABETH ESTY I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me mo...
ELIZABETH ESTY We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commerci...
ELIZABETH ESTY We shield our children from hazardous products - liquid nicotine should be no exception.
ELIZABETH ESTY We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, p...
ELIZABETH ESTY We need to close the tax loopholes that have awarded companies moving out of the country and oversea...
ELIZABETH ESTY We need more access to quality health care, not less.
ELIZABETH ESTY If you don't like public service, don't run for office.
ELIZABETH ESTY We've been having a lot of hearings lately about the reliability of the grid and the need for mo...
ELIZABETH ESTY Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.
ELIZABETH ESTY The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.
ELIZABETH ESTY Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
ELIZABETH ESTY Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.
ELIZABETH ESTY We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
ELIZABETH ESTY E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements ...
ELIZABETH ESTY Manufacturing is the backbone of Connecticut's economy, and suppliers such as Click Bond depend ...
ELIZABETH ESTY A more empirically grounded, fact-based approach to environmental policymaking will require investme...
DANIEL ESTY Environmental sustainability is substantially a factor of income and the ability to invest in buildi...
DANIEL ESTY Good governance emerges as a critical driver of environmental performance.
DANIEL ESTY The World Fellows have exceptional records of achievement and a proven capacity for leadership.
DANIEL 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 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 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 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.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR 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
ELIZABETH SCOTT 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...
ELIZABETH ALDER 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 Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS