C. Elizabeth Quotes
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.
The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.
I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.
I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.
It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.