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Eleanor Vosberg

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[In the 1979 miniseries] Backstairs at the White House, ... Eleanor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT big, old rambling house in Corrales.
JUANITA WOLFF We had to carry the silverware on and off the plane.
ELEANOR VOSBERG He was selling war bonds, but he still got bumped.
ELEANOR VOSBERG Kansas City to Cincinnati to Indianapolis to Pittsburgh to New York City.
ELEANOR VOSBERG It was my second time on a plane. The co-pilot came out and helped me.
ELEANOR VOSBERG I had trouble making the weight.
ELEANOR VOSBERG I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
MARTHA STEWART Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and ...
JAMIE WYETH I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house i...
JAY PARINI At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis...
HAILEY GATES We feel very lucky. Three people in the house and three of us lived.
JANELLE BERRY For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillow...
SHELLEY DUVALL I finally came to the conclusion that nobody is going to lure or drive me out of this old house I've...
ZELL MILLER This has been blown up into a big story because it's the week of the draft. Reggie Bush didn't know ...
MIKE ORNSTEIN Our first child was born in that house in 1975. My wife and I lived upstairs because we'd made it li...
DAVID REID We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we ...
GABY HOFFMANN I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as you...
CHELY WRIGHT There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in differe...
ANGELA CARTER I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a...
ELLEN DEGENERES Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation ...
RAINBOW ROWELL I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil...
LAURA ESQUIVEL How did we cope? We lived every day like we always lived it: Being by his side and catering to every...
CAROL PRATT We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indo...
ADAM SANDLER An old Man in a House is a good Sign.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill...
SAUL DAVID Frank Raines stood on the sidelines, leaving Eleanor Holmes Norton all by herself to fend against th...
MARION BARRY Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our h...
LISA RINNA He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
RAINBOW ROWELL My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.
EVA HERZIGOVA We believe the grandparents or relatives Harris lived with had other kids in the house, but it is no...
DIANE JACKSON We lived in a really small house there, ... We were not rich by any means. We were not the Kennedys ...
ANDREW KENNEDY The house where my mom lived . . . is just splinters.
AMBER GRUSH I've lived here for two years and I'm only going to stay long enough to find an apartment or house.
CAROLYN PERKINS To my mind, a family house felt lived-in, not brand-new, with a patina of age and history that a mod...
GALE ANNE HURD It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, ...
SUSANNA CLARKE Big Momma's House 2
MARTIN LAWRENCE A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he he...
DANIEL YERGIN My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. I...
PARDIS SABETI We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got...
ADAM SANDLER Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON We have a full house, but that's all right. That's not a big deal.
SALLY SMITH A bunch of them lived on State Street in a house we called the 'Munster House,' ... Pete used to tel...
BILL NICHOLS Remember the night we broke the window in this old house? This is what I wished for.
DONNA REED 'The Big House' is 'The Big House', but there's ways to prepare for it. I think we're pretty adjuste...
JEFF SAMARDZIJA An old friend is a new house.
GEORGE HERBERT Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very n...
STEVEN GAINES You never get the totality of Eleanor in The Lion In Winter,
JEAN LECLERC There were three men that lived in that house. So Jesse confesses, takes all the weight.
BARBARA LEPENDORF These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like the...
JIMMY BUFFETT I lived in the house with him and was his man Friday, I guess you could say. I took care of the hous...
CARL JACKSON Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
RAINBOW ROWELL I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be obl...
BEN KATCHOR She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL The Old Dark House
BORIS KARLOFF My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised...
STEVE CARELL That was a big joy for Ronald. We went out there and we checked out the house.
JOE LOFTIS So, a 75-year-old couple went from two in the house to 17.
DAWN MUSHILL This house is pretty big, but remember that it is a show home, so it has to be big so we can demonst...
BOYCE THOMPSON I don't want to see that old house torn down.
GEORGE DESHOTELS We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS... You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
PEGGY NOONAN These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like...
JIMMY BUFFETT I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outsid...
TAYLOR KINNEY She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
RALPH MCGILL Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
RAINBOW ROWELL It doesn't need to be a tiny kempt place, (but) a house that really looks like it's been lived in fo...
JASON WEISS I've lived in my house for 13 years, I think we've had one garage sale the whole time.
BRIAN SWEET A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, be...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER They've lived in that home forever. As a matter of fact, I think Steve has lived there all his life....
CINDY BOYER Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
EDWARD LEAR Two old Bachelors were living in one house;/ One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
EDWARD LEAR She was a young, 21-year-old White House intern.
JAMES ROGAN Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this h...
GERALDINE BROOKS We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
LORETTA LYNN It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was su...
ROBERT REED What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize wh...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you have lived in a house where constant terror resides, then will you realize the extent of da...
MYLYN YAMPAN The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY We were really afraid of fires. These old houses are so close together that if one was set afire, th...
GREGG HARRIS You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have ...
GERTRUDE STEIN That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN My first call was on a house in East Granby, a nice, old beautiful house. It looked like an awesome ...
BETH MACKIE Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are t...
EDWARD COKE No water, you can't use the toilet. And that's a big concern in the house.
BOB BUCKLEY When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers ...
RENZO ROSSO When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG If we get that part of our house in order, we can take the next big steps toward bigger and more exc...
BERNIE THOMAS My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
LANGSTON HUGHES Don't even look until you've closed on the old house. You could fall in love with a house and feel l...
MARCIA WILLIAMS I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
YANNICK NOAH

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We had to carry the silverware on and off the plane.
ELEANOR VOSBERG He was selling war bonds, but he still got bumped.
ELEANOR VOSBERG Kansas City to Cincinnati to Indianapolis to Pittsburgh to New York City.
ELEANOR VOSBERG It was my second time on a plane. The co-pilot came out and helped me.
ELEANOR VOSBERG I had trouble making the weight.
ELEANOR VOSBERG 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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
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.
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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.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT 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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
ELEANOR MONDALE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag...
ELEANOR CATTON I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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