C. Elizabeth Quotes

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

I love the work I do.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Love that endures, from life that disappears!

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.

There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.

I will love Michael Jackson forever.