C. Elizabeth Quotes

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.

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

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

If someone angers you, they control you.

I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.