Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.


Amy Vanderbilt

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C.
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have thr...
MARTY ARGANBRIGHT
Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON
Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK
Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Sec...
SANDER LEVIN
We have to (get better). We didn't run the ball particularly well. We had to rely too much on the pa...
BOB BIGGS
In a way life begins to feel better once we realize that our sins do not own us and our fear can not...
BRIELL ADAMS
One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We...
BENJAMIN WATSON
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
Focus on beauty to have a beautiful life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
If we had more office space, we could have provided better service. We need to be able to more conve...
LINDA MCCOY
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
It's the hand that's dealt us and they have to play us too, so it's a two-way street whether or not ...
BILL CLEARY
We still feel we need to be able to look at the player population more to see if it makes sense to p...
DR. ELLIOTT PELLMAN
They have offensive skills that we weren't able to match. They had two or three really talented play...
JEFF TANK
We feel good about what we have been able to do, but we have five more games and we have a lot more ...
DAVID PARKER
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have childr...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
We all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves and this is the mome...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
We have to get a lot better at doubles. Particularly, we have to get more aggressive there.
ANDY JACKSON
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We all have been given an inner voice to guide us. All we have to do is listen.
JIM GENOVESE
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much ...
TERRY MCMILLAN
At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and chan...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
At times we did move the ball. We know what to do within the system. We just have to do a better job...
BOB BARRETT
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as ...
NICK HORNBY
Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is ...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN
Washington is one of the better teams in the state and has a really nice ball club. At crucial times...
GARY MUNSEN
“Life is a forever learning lesson. It’s all about how we handle situations every day and not le...
BILL SCHUFFENHAUER
Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particul...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at a...
RICK ASTER
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART
It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL
Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH
You never feel good after a loss. I feel bad for our guys who played their hearts out all weekend an...
JEFF SCHEXNAIDER
As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is real...
AJA NAOMI KING
We're a different entity coming in from the outside, and we have to put our resources where our moth...
MEG CASPER
This is a job for us, too. If we don't do well, we don't have a job. Most of us want to keep playing...
ALEX BROOKS
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated th...
GEOFF MULGAN
Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handl...
JASON FRIED
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Life isn't easy. We've all had situations where we needed emotional support from a friend. Consider ...
KAY VANDERVORT
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, inst...
ELIF SHAFAK
Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS
Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH

More Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT
It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT
We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT
but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT
They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
AMY VANDERBILT
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
AMY VANDERBILT
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
AMY VANDERBILT
I think it's safe to say that Logan Pass probably won't be open to through traffic probably for a fe...
AMY VANDERBILT
And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it mor...
AMY VANDERBILT
Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT
One face to the world, another at home makes for misery
AMY VANDERBILT
It's pretty cliffy there. I don't know how steep it was. It may have been a cliff, because it took f...
AMY VANDERBILT
We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to ...
AMY VANDERBILT
Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running d...
AMY VANDERBILT
They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.
AMY VANDERBILT
What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close en...
AMY VANDERBILT
We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.
AMY VANDERBILT
Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
AMY VANDERBILT
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they...
WILLIAM VANDERBILT
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, be...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are a...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presen...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
GLORIA VANDERBILT
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power ...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
We would have second thoughts about using her again.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the valu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
GLORIA VANDERBILT
We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We weren't aware of any issues with Kate ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing &...
JAMES VANDERBILT
The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might ...
TOM VANDERBILT
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Bu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't k...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly wri...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always rea...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I believe in marriage and fidelity.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it alw...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going t...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Everything in life is elusive.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, fo...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I th...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The heart of another is a dark forest.
GLORIA VANDERBILT
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT
There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT
I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT
I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT
Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE
I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE
I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE
These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING
I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING
It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING
Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING
Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL
I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA
In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER
The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR
It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK
Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING
Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER
Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM
When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY
Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING
If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN
My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON
All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE
When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL
All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL
Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN
Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN
Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE
Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL
Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY
When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT
When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN
We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON