C. Elizabeth Quotes

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

Why look worse when you can look better?

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

God forgive you, but I never can.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

I shall not grow conservative with age.