C. Elizabeth Quotes

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

If we still advise we shall never do.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others