C. Elizabeth Quotes

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Memory - the very skin of life.