Liz Newman quote: "Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe that you’re trying and that they’re trying. See the good in others, so it brings out the best in you."

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I wil...
LIZ NEWMAN

I am worth more than these excuses. I am worth more than this inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing...
LIZ NEWMAN

And you find that sometimes you search to fill a void that doesn’t exist until you venture out far...
LIZ NEWMAN

Some stories
can only be appreciated
by the storyteller
Some adventures
can only...
LIZ NEWMAN

Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways
...
LIZ NEWMAN

It’s like a broken bone that never healed quite right. An ache that I feel on cold days when the c...
LIZ NEWMAN

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.
LIZ NEWMAN

By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to...
LIZ NEWMAN

I look forward to the day that I can feel nothing but indifference for you. Just like you were able ...
LIZ NEWMAN

You have the power to overcome. You have the power to persist. You have the power to be hurting and ...
LIZ NEWMAN

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we ...
LIZ NEWMAN

A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of he...
LIZ NEWMAN

She was always the first to love, first to encourage, first to forgive...for everyone but herself.
LIZ NEWMAN

'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.
LIZ TUCCILLO

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everythi...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don&#...
LIZ GOLDWYN

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
LIZ GOLDWYN

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to ...
LIZ CHENEY

In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, whic...
LIZ TUCCILLO

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
LIZ CARPENTER

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things w...
LIZ CARPENTER

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
LIZ CARPENTER

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a f...
LIZ PHAIR

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allow...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into w...
LIZ PHAIR

Our science and advisory board think that nuclear lamin dysfunction is a side-effect of DNA damage a...
LIZ PARRISH

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's ...
LIZ PHAIR

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
LIZ PHAIR

The biotech game is quickly changing. The people must demand their use of these treatments.
LIZ PARRISH

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
LIZ MURRAY

Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connec...
LIZ TUCCILLO

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out...
LIZ PHAIR

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
LIZ SMITH

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evid...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where...
LIZ MURRAY

My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I c...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wri...
LIZ PARRISH

Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an inst...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically h...
LIZ TROTTA

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
LIZ PHAIR

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize f...
LIZ CHENEY

I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural be...
LIZ GOLDWYN

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family c...
LIZ MURRAY

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think f...
LIZ PHAIR

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when i...
LIZ MURRAY

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I ro...
LIZ PHAIR

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debau...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If ...
LIZ CHENEY

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

One point of view gives a one dimensional world. (Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who got a s...
LIZ MURRAY

There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't.
LIZ APPLEGATE

These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, ...
LIZ APPLEGATE

Fat and fitness can go together, ... It depends on other factors.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Any trainer or physician that deals with football players, and in particular offensive linemen and t...
LIZ APPLEGATE

I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would g...
LIZ SMITH

If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
LIZ FRIEDMAN

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
LIZ SMITH

I rely on my personality for birth control.
LIZ WINSTON

I'm fifty-six and still a Virgo
LIZ CARPENTER

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
LIZ WILLIAMS

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time ...
LIZ GOLDWYN

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I ...
LIZ MURRAY

Exile on Main Street.
LIZ PHAIR

On Christina Aguilera: She couldn't be in the Kittens, no way! Not with those outfits. Her stylist w...
LIZ MCLARNON

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seam...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese ci...
LIZ WILLIAMS

He is going to start running my column, or a version of it, in September.
LIZ SMITH

What you become is what counts.
LIZ SMITH

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
LIZ SMITH

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
LIZ SMITH

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
LIZ SMITH

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
LIZ SMITH

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Kristin is an awesome person, more so than a basketball player. But her leadership was just phenomen...
LIZ SHIMEK

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way throug...
LIZ PHAIR

The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that ...
LIZ TUCCILLO

Being commercial is a prerequisite for staying afloat, ... I mean, it's desperate out there and you ...
LIZ PHAIR

The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday.
LIZ ROSENBERG

There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered.
LIZ MCINTYRE

She's a hustler, she's a beast on the boards and she can take over a game if she wanted to, but I th...
LIZ SHIMEK

When Alex passed away, we weren't sure what would happen with the lemonade stand. We intended to kee...
LIZ SCOTT

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
LIZ VASSEY

She was riding a new horse, not her regular horse.
LIZ ROSENBERG

I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that ther...
LIZ CHENEY

She ended up on the hood of his vehicle, on his windshield.
LIZ CALZADILLA

Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. H...
LIZ TUCCILLO

BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not tr...
LIZ PARRISH

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if...
LIZ TROTTA

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.
LIZ SMITH

Her last tour was kind of a greatest hits tour, and I don't think she would want to repeat all the s...
LIZ ROSENBERG

There's no strain in Madonna's marriage. Her relationship with Guy is quite good. They're quite happ...
LIZ ROSENBERG

Guy came to the set to visit, once with the children, Rocco and Lourdes, and once without. Mr. and M...
LIZ ROSENBERG

[Madonna's rep took the high road.] I'd sure love to have dinner with Bryan Ferry and Madonna anytim...
LIZ ROSENBERG

Our job as a record company is to get exposure for the video,
LIZ ROSENBERG

This lingerie is misleading the public because Madonna is in no way affiliated with it.
LIZ ROSENBERG

Hopefully she's going to get out of the hospital late tonight but she did suffer a few breaks, so sh...
LIZ ROSENBERG

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
LIZ PHAIR

We have a battery of tests planned at regular intervals including DNA methylation analysis, gene exp...
LIZ PARRISH

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.
LIZ ROSENBERG

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
LIZ SMITH

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I&#...
LIZ PHAIR

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.
LIZ CHENEY

I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this w...
LIZ PARRISH

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was...
LIZ MURRAY

I love Nicole Holofcener and Lynn Shelton, both for the same reasons: their films are funny without ...
LIZ TUCCILLO

She then walked toward the sidewalk to get a better view of the vehicle and noticed that it had just...
LIZ CALZADILLA

It was really heavily planted with lilacs. That was something that was unique, then.
LIZ WALTON

Part of this [donation] is that for developers, they can say that this is a widely [accepted] set of...
LIZ BARNETT

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
LIZ CARPENTER

We saw the level of attention it was getting (nationally) and knew the different extremes that were ...
LIZ CARPENTER

I believe she can overcome it.
LIZ CARPENTER

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
LIZ CARPENTER

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again
LIZ CARPENTER

On the surgically enhanced Jordan: She looks at you as if you're insignificant... not all of us have...
LIZ MCLARNON

We can not control the aging reversal to a specific year today, that will come in the future. It is ...
LIZ PARRISH

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
LIZ CARPENTER

A lot of things fell apart. It was truly a ghost town. Without revitalization, it would have continu...
LIZ SCOTT

From a valuation standpoint, this is one of my favorites at the moment. I think they have changed ar...
LIZ MILLER

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a ca...
LIZ VASSEY

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they a...
LIZ GOLDWYN

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
LIZ SMITH

Work by Maria Blasco, Calvin Harley, Michael Fossel, Woodring Wright and Shay and Ronald Depinho in ...
LIZ PARRISH

Take your kids hiking, biking or skating.
LIZ NEPORENT

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New Yor...
LIZ PHAIR

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR

Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stun...
LIZ MOORE

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
LIZ PHAIR

We did not ever feel personally threatened.
LIZ VIERING

[Or it's just a compulsion.] It's not something you choose to do, ... You can't avoid doing it.
LIZ STUBBS

Saturday morning is geared more towards produce.
LIZ NICHOLS

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.
LIZ PERLE

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as l...
LIZ WILLIAMS

Sometimes the things that fall through are a blessing in disguise and you find something even better...
LIZ STUBBS

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
LIZ SMITH

This is a very saddening and distressing situation,
LIZ BARKER

Wherever the court is, that's where we're going. Wherever the opponent is, that's where we're going....
LIZ SHIMEK

Hundreds of people are undergoing gene therapy today. There are no known neurological issues.
LIZ PARRISH

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still ha...
LIZ THEBART

I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.
LIZ THEBART

[...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me wel...
LIZ THEBART

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life....
LIZ THEBART

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.
LIZ THEBART

[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.
LIZ THEBART

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also...
LIZ GOLDWYN

I think gene therapy and nanotechnology go hand in hand.
LIZ PARRISH

She's very strong and focused. She's comfortable out of the cage.
LIZ MONTE

We aren't going to be cutting any residential trees. Upon further review of the science, the (U.S. D...
LIZ COMPTON

The 15 million lasted until February. Then we went back to the feds and asked for more, and they not...
LIZ COMPTON

They think they will get a four-star hotel and great accommodations, and it turns out to be a rat ho...
LIZ COMPTON

It's just a drop in the bucket.
LIZ COMPTON

Every law is contingent on funding for enforcement. The federal government has indicated it would no...
LIZ COMPTON

There's a lot of questions we can't answer yet, because we don't know. We just don't know.
LIZ COMPTON

We won't be cutting exposed trees anymore. We can't do what we don't have money for.
LIZ COMPTON

It's discouraging whenever we find new trees. But the fact is, we can't stop hurricanes.
LIZ COMPTON

Taking care of your bills is an important thing. But there are some things that people need to know.
LIZ COMPTON

People are very desperate this time of year right after the holidays when they may not have realized...
LIZ COMPTON

You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know...
LIZ FENTON

A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY

If this bill lands on the governor's desk, it's very unlikely that the governor would turn her back ...
LIZ BOYD

There will come a point in time when you've so thoroughly communicated your vacation plans that your...
LIZ RYAN

The end for us came with a knock on my window.
LIZ THEBART

There was no sign he’d even been in a fight –Fucking Golden Boy.
LIZ THEBART

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'
LIZ TROTTA

It's awesome. I've dreamt of it since missing out in Manchester.
LIZ YELLING

Can I..." He stopped and his jaw flexed. "Can I kiss you?"
I didn't answer, and he didn't wait ...
LIZ REINHARDT

The governor knew that. She enthusiastically signed the bill.
LIZ BOYD

Say to yourself, I will call the office at six every other day, and that is when you do it, so it is...
LIZ TUCKER

Set aside set times when you do office work or phone calls, rather than letting the whole day go on ...
LIZ TUCKER

If you have a really busy and stimulating stressful life, the only way that you can keep that going ...
LIZ TUCKER

These weren't patrons, so we know they weren't standing up or goofing off.
LIZ COMPTON

No firm plans, ... But we're all talking about it.
LIZ PHAIR

They're different, ... We record the live shows and it's very unprofessional at this point -- like, ...
LIZ PHAIR

When I wrote
LIZ PHAIR

He had a big impact in terms of how I perceive myself and my job,
LIZ PHAIR

I'm very different; that was 12 years ago, ... I hate to think it's like I'm still going around sayi...
LIZ PHAIR

Once upon a time I was so restless in love / When things were fine I changed my mind just because / ...
LIZ PHAIR

Come on, you can tolerate it,
LIZ PHAIR

Before, it was horrible. I was breaking my back over the tub.
LIZ CRAFT

I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nice...
LIZ REINHARDT

The group out of South Carolina put the kibosh on any sane buy-out.
LIZ BECHER

When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
LIZ WINSTON

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ...
LIZ PHAIR

A lot of people feel that relaxation is an indulgence, particularly women, (but) taking time out to ...
LIZ TUCKER

We are still inspecting because we want to know what's out there. If you have a grove without canker...
LIZ COMPTON

It's at their own peril. They are in a canker-laden area and there is also greening in South Florida...
LIZ COMPTON

They [stars] are just a way to daydream.
LIZ SMITH

Exercise and eat healthy foods in moderation. I am a vegetarian but that is a personal choice.
LIZ PARRISH

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'
I know, I want to tell her. It should have ...
LIZ JENSEN

A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.
LIZ FENTON

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
LIZ PHAIR

A very meaningful thing you can do is bring your son to have his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Th...
LIZ DAVIS

You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I di...
LIZ REINHARDT

Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe that you’re trying and that they’re trying. See the good in others, so it brings out the best in you.

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Liz Newman

Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe that you’re trying and that they’re trying. See the good in others, so it brings out the best in you.

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