C. Elizabeth Quotes

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

To achieve beauty, a woman must first achieve health.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

We have really no absent friends.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

How long will the heathens rage?

I don't love you anymore ... It comes down to that, I think.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

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

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

I want to reclaim who I am.

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.