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Louise L. Hay

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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may no...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government,...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedra...
LOUISE NURDING
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad cas...
LOUISE NURDING
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children....
LOUISE BROWN
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUISE NEVELSON
As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...
LOUISE ERDRICH
To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...
LOUISE ERDRICH
For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...
LOUISE ERDRICH
To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that sa...
LOUISE ERDRICH
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is bea...
LOUISE ERDRICH
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
LOUISE ERDRICH
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the ...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour ...
LOUISE ERDRICH
When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know peop...
LOUISE ERDRICH
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let y...
LOUISE ERDRICH
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beau...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co...
LOUISE ERDRICH
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m...
LOUISE ERDRICH
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
LOUISE PENNY
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures som...
LOUISE FRESCO
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o...
LOUISE MENSCH
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or wh...
LOUISE FLETCHER
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the ot...
LOUISE ERDRICH
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading l...
LOUISE BROWN
I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll...
LOUISE RENNISON
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LOUISE BROOKS
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and acad...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins...
LOUISE ERDRICH
I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and t...
LOUISE NURDING
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movement...
LOUISE BROOKS
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say...
LOUISE MENSCH