C. Elizabeth Quotes

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

Does the devil know he is a devil?

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

eventually, everything goes away.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Anything that’s too safe is not action.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.