C. Elizabeth Quotes

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.

Shh,” he whispered. “You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Never say No when the world says Aye.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.