C. Elizabeth Quotes

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

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

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

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

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Great witch, tough woman.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.