C. Elizabeth Quotes

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

The past cannot be cured.

I observe and remain silent.

What a blessing it is to love books.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

John you are not being open with me