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DEANN CRAFT Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. LAWRENCE Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means
D.H. LAWRENCE Sara is a pretty girl and her mom didn't want her face to get cut up.
CARLOS DUNCAN I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
TAYLOR MOMSEN That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin...
WALTER MOSLEY The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing ove...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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JEFF LINDSAY Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie a...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Do you like flowers, Lady Eleanor?"
It was him speaking. Lord Blunt. Asking her opinion on some...
MEGAN FRAMPTON As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A pretty girl is like a melody / That haunts you day and night.
IRVING BERLIN She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to ge...
JUDY HAYLES There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ...
RAINBOW ROWELL I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is geniu...
ZACH BRAFF You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
RAINBOW ROWELL Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
RAINBOW ROWELL I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance.
No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
RAINBOW ROWELL She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She ...
LAINI TAYLOR Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
JANE AUSTEN History teacher Mrs. (Eleanor) Glass inspired her to look beyond Michigan.
DAN BOONE When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.
SUSAN FORD Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"
Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he sa...
JEANNE DUPRAU ...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
ELLE VARNER Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her...
ANN BRASHARES No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the
comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an h...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an...
FRANK FRYE Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di...
PRETTY Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I...
RAINBOW ROWELL Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay,...
RAINBOW ROWELL She was Daddy's good little girl. That was of that era. She's not ditzy. She's very intelligent. And...
ANNE FRANCIS Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
JESSIE MUELLER A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an
hour. Sit with a pretty girl for a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous,...
WALLY SCHIRRA I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I a...
SYLVIA PLATH She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�...
ALI SMITH A girl as small as a violet, a girl who moves like a flower petal – is pulling me toward her with ...
KIM IN YOOK She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of he...
NEAL STEPHENSON An old cat sports not with her prey.
GEORGE HERBERT The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her wha...
SHERRY ARGOV I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of m...
JODI PICOULT Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 vo...
BRETT TATE After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers
ASTRID ALAUDA She held her sword like she was ready to use it on anyone who got close. Darquesse could see her own...
DEREK LANDY «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
RAINBOW ROWELL The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
SAMANTHA MATHIS Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy so...
BIBLE I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keepi...
SPENCER BOLDMAN The world turned itself into a better place around him.
RAINBOW ROWELL As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time ...
ROSS CALIGIURI You call that a kiss?"
"Yep."
Okay, so I'm in shock the girl put my hand on her creamy che...
SIMONE ELKELES Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting thei...
ANNA JULIA COOPER Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting thei...
ANNA COOPER I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some o...
BIANCA LAWSON Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantag...
GIRL A When you fold your hands, Baby Louise!
Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,
With a pre...
MARGARET EYTINGE Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute,...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't really even want to think about Cooper. I'm so concerned with Central. They're a good basket...
BILL BOYD [Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garmen...
MARY DUGGER I guess he was pretty excited. He was talking like a 6-year-old girl.
DREW STANTON As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories...
NICHOLAS SPARKS ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a sc...
HENRY JAMES Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a...
KELLY MORAN So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.
H.G. WELLS She didn't feel like a girl when he kissed her, but like fire in a girl's form, burning and hungry.
KATHERINE HARBOUR So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
TAMARA TUNIE All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ev...
J.P. DELANEY As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and ha...
STIEG LARSSON I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so mu...
LAURA MARANO Honestly, I am not a huge beauty girl, so I'm pretty low-maintenance, California.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse ...
J.D. JORDAN Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look ...
KATRINA KAIF Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower peta...
KIM IN-YOOK, “THE PHYSICS OF LOVE” I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the dou...
THOMAS CARLYLE
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I'd love it, ... People who go to that, they come back changed. I want to go and experience it.
ELEANOR COOPER He is a blessing to me, ... All these people, these ones who were once strangers (from Alabama), the...
ELEANOR COOPER She's letting him pray for her problems but not for her,
ELEANOR COOPER Most would have nothing else if it wasn't for these clinics,
ELEANOR COOPER Just so much trouble there, ... So much danger.
ELEANOR COOPER At least here they have a chance, ... They won't get pregnant, and they know how to take care of the...
ELEANOR COOPER They are safe here,
ELEANOR COOPER Then the men pursue, ... Relentlessly.
ELEANOR COOPER People are hidden in there, and these girls, they'll just be at a river, washing clothes, and a man ...
ELEANOR COOPER It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmar...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing every day that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla...
ELEANOR DUSE Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and...
ELEANOR EARLY You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a...
ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
ELEANOR CATTON A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create...
ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor...
ELEANOR CATTON Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON