You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.


Lydia M. Child

  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

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful ...
MAEVE BINCHY
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on socie...
NELSON MANDELA
If you are not honest with yourself, you cannot be honest with others.
LALIT BHOJWANI
Never allow yourself to be a playful object for others. Never let yourself be satisfied on less what...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you k...
SUN TZU
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you k...
SUN-TZU
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Be with a guy who lets you know how important you are to him. Do not allow yourself to settle. Do no...
JOY MANISCALCO
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
BRIAN TRACY
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what disc...
BRYANT MCGILL
Whenever you find yourself in a situation like the governor is in, you want to find a 'pivot point' ...
CHRIS LEHANE
Be there for others but not at the cost your commited way of living.Be yourself & never allow to def...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Let the people talk, let people doubt, and let
people question you, but never allow yourself to...
FORREST CURRAN
Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
To respect yourself is a blessing.One who respects himself is honest & sincere in his effort & actio...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Remind yourself of who you are and what you can do in spite what others say about you or how others ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
If you are not good to yourself, you can never be good to others.
WOHI PURANA
We can't help you unless you make an effort to help yourself.
DETECTIVE PAUL BERTOLAMI
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yo...
VINCE POSCENTE
The less you look to others,
the more you find in yourself.
What have you found in yoursel...
RON W. RATHBUN
Security has to be habitual. If you allow yourself to get into a lax way of thinking when it pertain...
LARRY JORDAN
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
MAE WEST
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
SWEDISH PROVERB
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
MARY RENAULT
Allow others to call you guru but do not let yourself become one.
BEN TOLOSA
When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others ...
STEVE MARABOLI
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself...
CHINUA ACHEBE
People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they ...
RICHEY EDWARDS
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Why do you compare yourself to others?
Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Listen to yourself to understand others ! If you can't listen to yourself, NOT EVEN YOU CAN UNDERSTA...
EPHDAN
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
The first thing is to convince yourself that life's more fun if you love yourself. Don't worry about...
DR. LYNN CUTTS
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN
If you are happy, you will find everything or everyone happy around you and how to make yourself hap...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
When you first meet him you often find him to be annoying, and you have to control yourself not to s...
DICK ADVOCAAT
‎"If you're cup is half empty, you can blame it on others, or you can fill it up yourself.."
REZA FARIVAR
Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true
BRIAN TRACY
Take full responsibility of yourself, of your actions and of your inaction. It is only when you can ...
AKIROQ BROST
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
FOKA GOMEZ
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Love will find you again. And you can never, ever change yourself for anyone or change yourself to f...
LILY COLLINS
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
ADOLF HITLER
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
MILEY CYRUS
In life, you will never find yourself, until you start to create yourself
BRYAN INDIGO
People tend to believe what others say about you than you about yourself.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Developing your EI will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others. It ...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
Listen to your instincts. Trust yourself. You'll know when you're being honest with yourself and whe...
AKIROQ BROST
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by wh...
A.J. DARKHOLME
If you hang to pain, hurt, embarrassment, guilt and such emotions you will find that they will domin...
LATIKA TEOTIA
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If you had three cookies, don?t put down two. If you?re not honest with yourself, you?re going to wo...
ANDREA GIANCOLI
They always say pay yourself first, whether in mutual funds or in the bank, because if you pay yours...
DON CASSIDY
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, ...
ZEDD
Never allow a person to change you, or you will lose yourself with your essence of an individual.
VIKRANT PARSAI
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for s...
ERIC HOFFER
You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.
STEVEN CUOCO
Don't allow yourself to get into a condition where you are not able to defend yourself. This is not ...
BETH TWITTY
Do never entrust someone, because if you can not keep it to yourself, do not expect that others do t...
TISCHA
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have...
DALAI LAMA
Every decision you make goes to the result of what you allow yourself to achieve.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic m...
CLARA HUGHES
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
JODI PICOULT
Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get d...
ROBERT GREENE
That people rejected you is not enough to make you reject yourself.
SOTONYE ANGA
Do not wait on the explanation of others to find the answer to your problems. You have to look insid...
AVIS JOHN
Make yourself determined , cheerful and happy in whatever situation you may find yourself.Be strong ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
you must find yourself before you can know where you belong, yet to find yourself first you must kno...
ANDREW JAMES PRITCHARD
I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try t...
TANANARIVE DUE
If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you...
NIKKI ROWE
Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world...
ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
GROUCHO MARX
Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
JOHN LUTHER
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you m...
VIGGO MORTENSEN
Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black doe...
PATIENCE JOHNSON
Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than you deserve. To m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unatt...
AMY ADAMS
Believe in your greatness. Believe in your potential. Don't sell yourself short. Don't give up too e...
AKIROQ BROST
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into your...
SEAMUS HEANEY
If you had three cookies, don't put down two. If you're not honest with yourself, you're going to wo...
ANDREA GIANCOLI
Never allow others to make you feel inferior. If you continue to let you down and belittle yourself,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you w...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
If you want to find truth, be yourself. If you want to find love, love yourself.
SAL PALLADINO
When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourse...
OLGA TOKARCZUK
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
AYN RAND
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a...
BAT FOR LASHES
Integrity is the sound follow through of your heart, and an important part in the process of manifes...
WILL BARNES
NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER
Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.
STACY LONDON
DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,
TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER
When you are angry you will find that you have lost yourself. You have lost yourself to outside forc...
AVINA CELESTE
Make yourself determined , cheerful and happy in whatever situation you may find yourself.Be strong ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

More Lydia M. Child

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
LYDIA M. CHILD
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M CHILD
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA M. CHILD
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as...
LYDIA M. CHILD
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in...
LYDIA M. CHILD
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
LYDIA M. CHILD
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, m...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and hel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
LYDIA M. CHILD
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancho...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
LYDIA M. CHILD
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others...
LYDIA M. CHILD
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evi...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and hel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
Thy home may be lo...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theat...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it contin...
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because t...
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you'...
JULIA CHILD
For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy ju...
LEE CHILD
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y...
LINCOLN CHILD
Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
JULIA CHILD
I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a life...
LEE CHILD
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn'...
JULIA CHILD
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love t...
JULIA CHILD
What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone proble...
JULIA CHILD
Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
JULIA CHILD
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of ...
JULIA CHILD
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...
JULIA CHILD
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This a...
JULIA CHILD
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...
JULIA CHILD
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r...
JULIA CHILD
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a...
JULIA CHILD
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...
JULIA CHILD
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had a...
JULIA CHILD
I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
JULIA CHILD
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. ...
JULIA CHILD
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come i...
JULIA CHILD
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs...
JULIA CHILD
You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season ...
JULIA CHILD
Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your ...
JULIA CHILD
I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who'...
JULIA CHILD
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
JULIA CHILD
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a wh...
JULIA CHILD
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a b...
JULIA CHILD
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and...
LEE CHILD
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic...
JULIA CHILD
Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be...
LEE CHILD
It's true,' said Freddie Humbert, 'kids nowadays have got no ability to listen to simple instruction...
LAUREN CHILD
Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby
'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hit...
LAUREN CHILD
Rube, this is me you're talking to, Clancy Crew, remember? Your best buddy? And I hate to break it t...
LAUREN CHILD
Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily ...
LAUREN CHILD
Excuse me while I yawn.
LAUREN CHILD
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
JULIA CHILD
When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's ...
JULIA CHILD
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an e...
LINCOLN CHILD
I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
LEE CHILD
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't pa...
JULIA CHILD
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, ...
JULIA CHILD
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it...
JULIA CHILD
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...
JULIA CHILD
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
JULIA CHILD
A party without cake is just a meeting
JULIA CHILD
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to ...
JULIA CHILD
(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.
JULIA CHILD
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
JULIA CHILD
Life itself is the proper binge.
JULIA CHILD
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narr...
LEE CHILD
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you ma...
JULIA CHILD
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an af...
LEE CHILD
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
JULIA CHILD
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.
JULIA CHILD
...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
JULIA CHILD
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
JULIA CHILD
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like t...
JULIA CHILD
world's best pop group.
DESTINY'S CHILD
absolutely
DESTINY'S CHILD
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and consi...
LEE CHILD
That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.
WILD CHILD
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
JULIA CHILD
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook
JULIA CHILD
I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.
JULIA CHILD
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come i...
JULIA CHILD
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is eva...
JULIA CHILD
I just hate health food
JULIA CHILD
I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps th...
JULIA CHILD
Cooking with the Master Chefs.
JULIA CHILD
We'll get some help from the board of directors... volunteers and do a lot of back-breaking work.
BLAKE CHILD
They didn't steal from the board. They stole from the kids.
BLAKE CHILD
It takes a lot of work and volunteers and we come here after work... after our 'eight to fives' and ...
BLAKE CHILD
They busted up the lock pretty good. That's where we stored all of our equipment.
BLAKE CHILD
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
JULIA CHILD
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. ...
JULIA CHILD
Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh ...
JULIA CHILD
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
JULIA CHILD
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
JULIA CHILD
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell atti...
JULIA CHILD
If we can field ground balls and play solid on defense, I think we'll have a good chance to win ever...
WILLY CHILD
I feel good about each of them. Since we play each region team three times, having four pitchers is ...
WILLY CHILD
We're excited. Our kids have been working hard and playing well.
WILLY CHILD
Murray is a great team. It always feels good to get a win on the road against a good team like them.
WILLY CHILD
The kids were motivated. They decided before they went out that they were going to have a big inning...
WILLY CHILD
We knew it was going to be a close game. It was just a question of who could make the most plays dow...
WILLY CHILD
It's always scary playing Murray at this park. I knew that any one of them could have hit it out for...
WILLY CHILD
Adam had a huge game for us today. He had a couple of really big hits, and just played very well fro...
WILLY CHILD
Bug a Boo.
DESTINY'S CHILD
There are some good teams. Pine View is ranked in the top five, Mountain View played well in its win...
WILLY CHILD
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
JULIA CHILD
If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
JULIA CHILD
Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.
LINCOLN CHILD
People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "...
LEE CHILD
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolu...
LEE CHILD
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the rig...
LEE CHILD
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the...
LEE CHILD
You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
JULIA CHILD
Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD
I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
LEE CHILD
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret ...
LINCOLN CHILD
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are...
JULIA CHILD
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
LEE CHILD
As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for ...
JULIA CHILD
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
LEE CHILD
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
LEE CHILD
The way he wrote it in his memoirs he wanted to leave something for his family so they would be able...
FRANK CHILD
It was always kind of an interesting a place at night. To hop the fence and be in that quirky place,...
FRANK CHILD
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn...
JULIA CHILD
Staring isn’t difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is someti...
LEE CHILD
...the average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: "These notions of yours are all very fascinating...
JULIA CHILD
Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth becau...
LAUREN CHILD
I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to ...
LEE CHILD
I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.
LEE CHILD
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
LEE CHILD
Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as ...
LEE CHILD
I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they ca...
LEE CHILD
if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.
LEE CHILD
We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.
LEE CHILD
Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that...
MAUREEN CHILD
I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
LEE CHILD
Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD
I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a dis...
LYDIA MILLET
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry...
LYDIA LUNCH
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city ...
LYDIA MILLET
In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was po...
LYDIA MILLET
Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over w...
LYDIA MILLET
If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this,...
LYDIA DAVIS
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered ...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or ev...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined...
LYDIA LUNCH
Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna...
LYDIA KO
For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victim...
LYDIA MILLET
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all ...
LYDIA LUNCH
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa...
LYDIA MILLET
I've never wanted a quiet life.
LYDIA CACHO
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need mu...
LYDIA LUNCH
In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen lopi...
LYDIA MILLET
I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small task...
LYDIA MILLET
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'...
LYDIA LUNCH
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be ...
LYDIA LUNCH
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m...
LYDIA DAVIS
When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
LYDIA MILLET
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or a...
LYDIA KO
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic stud...
LYDIA MILLET
Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' st...
LYDIA MILLET
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would b...
LYDIA LUNCH