C. Elizabeth Quotes

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Success is a great deodorant.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Two human loves make one divine.

Art is much, but love is more.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

He who angers you conquers you.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.