Liz Curtis Higgs quote: "When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations."

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forw...
LIZ CURTIS HIGGS

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.
LIZ CURTIS HIGGS

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberat...
ROBERT HIGGS

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed ...
PETER HIGGS

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be grati...
PETER HIGGS

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend p...
ROBERT HIGGS

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can co...
PETER HIGGS

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to ...
PETER HIGGS

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message woul...
PETER HIGGS

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb cra...
PETER HIGGS

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arr...
PETER HIGGS

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was be...
PETER HIGGS

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I r...
PETER HIGGS

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a ...
ROBERT HIGGS

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxat...
ROBERT HIGGS

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
PETER HIGGS

We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and ...
ROBERT HIGGS

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react t...
PETER HIGGS

Being a professional circuit fisherman, Jay has a unique position to connect with millions of sporti...
DAVID HIGGS

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn...
PETER HIGGS

'If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better ...
PORTIA HIGGS

This more detailed analysis shows that direct personal interventions and a high visibility of the ac...
NEIL HIGGS

It allows them to have the experience of being the lungs for their instrument.
DAVID HIGGS

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not ...
ROBERT HIGGS

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Alt...
ROBERT HIGGS

Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly h...
ROBERT HIGGS

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering ab...
ROBERT HIGGS

The irony is that the ICC is there for a humanitarian purpose, it wants to discourage terrible crime...
BRYN HIGGS

To start war crimes investigations for the sake of justice at a time when northern Uganda sees the m...
BRYN HIGGS

ICC has committed a terrible blunder,
BRYN HIGGS

It was the same lineup that I had (Wednesday) night. I was really pleased with the doubles play toni...
DAVE HIGGS

I really can't say enough about the three singles players. They really get the job done.
DAVE HIGGS

It was exciting. We were 2-all and first singles was still on the court. John really came back in th...
DAVE HIGGS

It was a hard fought match. Every court was well contested on both sides. It was a good match all ar...
DAVE HIGGS

It was a good win, but we know we're going to be stepping up the competition here shortly. It's good...
DAVE HIGGS

The fact that we only lost seven games in the total match, I was real pleased. The guys got through ...
DAVE HIGGS

It's good to be back.
DAVE HIGGS

We've had a taste of it the last two seasons. We've had doubles teams make it to state, so they've t...
DAVE HIGGS

We're obviously very glad they're back in custody.
DAVID HIGGS

I feel very confident there probably will be some recommended changes.
DAVID HIGGS

In the late 18th century, the bird sound would have been considered high-tech science, like the adva...
DAVID HIGGS

Rice's defense took both Ethan Paquette and Garrett Calkins right out of the game.
LAYNE HIGGS

We had trouble guarding Essex in the first half. We got to within two points in the fourth quarter a...
LAYNE HIGGS

Champlain Valley is not the kind of team that you can come back from a big deficit like we were forc...
LAYNE HIGGS

We had some good looks at the basket against their zone in the first quarter, but you can't shoot 1-...
LAYNE HIGGS

Calkins was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in the fourth quarter.
LAYNE HIGGS

It was a game of runs. We got off to a good start, shooting 9-for-13 in the first quarter, then they...
LAYNE HIGGS

I thought overall for the game we had better focus and we worked real hard right from the beginning.
LAYNE HIGGS

We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to.
LAYNE HIGGS

A big key in the first half, we were able to stay within two points, with Calkins sitting out.
LAYNE HIGGS

Hopefully the relay team can drop a couple more seconds.
JENNELL HIGGS

A lot of the other winners we know from competing on a team at Kirtland (Air Force Base).
JENNELL HIGGS

We'll probably train harder next year. I know our times will get better as we train.
JENNELL HIGGS

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
ROBERT HIGGS

A score of 70 would indicate a reasonable level of satisfaction. Anything below 50 should be conside...
NEIL HIGGS

'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.
LIZ TUCCILLO

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everythi...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don&#...
LIZ GOLDWYN

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
LIZ GOLDWYN

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to ...
LIZ CHENEY

In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, whic...
LIZ TUCCILLO

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
LIZ CARPENTER

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things w...
LIZ CARPENTER

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
LIZ CARPENTER

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a f...
LIZ PHAIR

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allow...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into w...
LIZ PHAIR

Our science and advisory board think that nuclear lamin dysfunction is a side-effect of DNA damage a...
LIZ PARRISH

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's ...
LIZ PHAIR

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
LIZ PHAIR

The biotech game is quickly changing. The people must demand their use of these treatments.
LIZ PARRISH

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
LIZ MURRAY

Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connec...
LIZ TUCCILLO

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out...
LIZ PHAIR

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
LIZ SMITH

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evid...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where...
LIZ MURRAY

My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I c...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wri...
LIZ PARRISH

Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an inst...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically h...
LIZ TROTTA

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
LIZ PHAIR

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize f...
LIZ CHENEY

I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural be...
LIZ GOLDWYN

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family c...
LIZ MURRAY

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think f...
LIZ PHAIR

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when i...
LIZ MURRAY

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I ro...
LIZ PHAIR

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debau...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If ...
LIZ CHENEY

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

One point of view gives a one dimensional world. (Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who got a s...
LIZ MURRAY

There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't.
LIZ APPLEGATE

These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, ...
LIZ APPLEGATE

Fat and fitness can go together, ... It depends on other factors.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Any trainer or physician that deals with football players, and in particular offensive linemen and t...
LIZ APPLEGATE

I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would g...
LIZ SMITH

If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
LIZ FRIEDMAN

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
LIZ SMITH

I rely on my personality for birth control.
LIZ WINSTON

I'm fifty-six and still a Virgo
LIZ CARPENTER

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
LIZ WILLIAMS

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time ...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I ...
LIZ MURRAY

Exile on Main Street.
LIZ PHAIR

On Christina Aguilera: She couldn't be in the Kittens, no way! Not with those outfits. Her stylist w...
LIZ MCLARNON

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seam...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese ci...
LIZ WILLIAMS

He is going to start running my column, or a version of it, in September.
LIZ SMITH

What you become is what counts.
LIZ SMITH

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
LIZ SMITH

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
LIZ SMITH

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
LIZ SMITH

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
LIZ SMITH

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Kristin is an awesome person, more so than a basketball player. But her leadership was just phenomen...
LIZ SHIMEK

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way throug...
LIZ PHAIR

The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that ...
LIZ TUCCILLO

Being commercial is a prerequisite for staying afloat, ... I mean, it's desperate out there and you ...
LIZ PHAIR

The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday.
LIZ ROSENBERG

There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered.
LIZ MCINTYRE

She's a hustler, she's a beast on the boards and she can take over a game if she wanted to, but I th...
LIZ SHIMEK

When Alex passed away, we weren't sure what would happen with the lemonade stand. We intended to kee...
LIZ SCOTT

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
LIZ VASSEY

She was riding a new horse, not her regular horse.
LIZ ROSENBERG

I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that ther...
LIZ CHENEY

She ended up on the hood of his vehicle, on his windshield.
LIZ CALZADILLA

Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. H...
LIZ TUCCILLO

BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not tr...
LIZ PARRISH

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if...
LIZ TROTTA

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.
LIZ SMITH

Her last tour was kind of a greatest hits tour, and I don't think she would want to repeat all the s...
LIZ ROSENBERG

There's no strain in Madonna's marriage. Her relationship with Guy is quite good. They're quite happ...
LIZ ROSENBERG

Guy came to the set to visit, once with the children, Rocco and Lourdes, and once without. Mr. and M...
LIZ ROSENBERG

[Madonna's rep took the high road.] I'd sure love to have dinner with Bryan Ferry and Madonna anytim...
LIZ ROSENBERG

Our job as a record company is to get exposure for the video,
LIZ ROSENBERG

This lingerie is misleading the public because Madonna is in no way affiliated with it.
LIZ ROSENBERG

Hopefully she's going to get out of the hospital late tonight but she did suffer a few breaks, so sh...
LIZ ROSENBERG

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
LIZ PHAIR

We have a battery of tests planned at regular intervals including DNA methylation analysis, gene exp...
LIZ PARRISH

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.
LIZ ROSENBERG

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I&#...
LIZ PHAIR

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.
LIZ CHENEY

I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this w...
LIZ PARRISH

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was...
LIZ MURRAY

I love Nicole Holofcener and Lynn Shelton, both for the same reasons: their films are funny without ...
LIZ TUCCILLO

She then walked toward the sidewalk to get a better view of the vehicle and noticed that it had just...
LIZ CALZADILLA

It was really heavily planted with lilacs. That was something that was unique, then.
LIZ WALTON

Part of this [donation] is that for developers, they can say that this is a widely [accepted] set of...
LIZ BARNETT

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
LIZ CARPENTER

We saw the level of attention it was getting (nationally) and knew the different extremes that were ...
LIZ CARPENTER

I believe she can overcome it.
LIZ CARPENTER

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
LIZ CARPENTER

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again
LIZ CARPENTER

On the surgically enhanced Jordan: She looks at you as if you're insignificant... not all of us have...
LIZ MCLARNON

We can not control the aging reversal to a specific year today, that will come in the future. It is ...
LIZ PARRISH

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
LIZ CARPENTER

A lot of things fell apart. It was truly a ghost town. Without revitalization, it would have continu...
LIZ SCOTT

From a valuation standpoint, this is one of my favorites at the moment. I think they have changed ar...
LIZ MILLER

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a ca...
LIZ VASSEY

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they a...
LIZ GOLDWYN

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
LIZ SMITH

Work by Maria Blasco, Calvin Harley, Michael Fossel, Woodring Wright and Shay and Ronald Depinho in ...
LIZ PARRISH

Take your kids hiking, biking or skating.
LIZ NEPORENT

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New Yor...
LIZ PHAIR

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I wil...
LIZ NEWMAN

Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stun...
LIZ MOORE

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
LIZ PHAIR

We did not ever feel personally threatened.
LIZ VIERING

[Or it's just a compulsion.] It's not something you choose to do, ... You can't avoid doing it.
LIZ STUBBS

Saturday morning is geared more towards produce.
LIZ NICHOLS

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.
LIZ PERLE

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as l...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Sometimes the things that fall through are a blessing in disguise and you find something even better...
LIZ STUBBS

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
LIZ SMITH

This is a very saddening and distressing situation,
LIZ BARKER

Wherever the court is, that's where we're going. Wherever the opponent is, that's where we're going....
LIZ SHIMEK

Hundreds of people are undergoing gene therapy today. There are no known neurological issues.
LIZ PARRISH

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still ha...
LIZ THEBART

I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.
LIZ THEBART

[...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me wel...
LIZ THEBART

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life....
LIZ THEBART

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.
LIZ THEBART

[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.
LIZ THEBART

I am worth more than these excuses. I am worth more than this inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing...
LIZ NEWMAN

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I think gene therapy and nanotechnology go hand in hand.
LIZ PARRISH

She's very strong and focused. She's comfortable out of the cage.
LIZ MONTE

We aren't going to be cutting any residential trees. Upon further review of the science, the (U.S. D...
LIZ COMPTON

When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.

Liz Curtis Higgs

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