Barbara Quotes

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

If we don't help each other, who will?

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.