Barbara Quotes

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

The most important things in your home are people.

The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

In politics, guts is all.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

The earth is bread we take and eat.

I prefer to remain anomalous.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.