C. Elizabeth Quotes

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

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.

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.

Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

It's not the having it's the getting.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.

The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn Morning's at seven The hillside's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.