C. Elizabeth Quotes
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.
There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
