Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Question
  • Go
  • Meeting

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• I love rock n' rollers.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Love
  • Rock
  • I Love

• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Guy
  • Shave

• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Done
  • Never
  • Doubts

• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Freedom
  • Loss
  • Presence

• I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.

  

  Xavi
  • Love
  • Play
  • Football

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Team
  • Military
  • Red

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Single

• I believe in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Believe
  • Water
  • Healthy

• I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Men

• I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Dream
  • Teenager

• The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weird

• I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

  

  Patti Davis
  • Father
  • Birthday

• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  

  Harry Reasoner
  • Trouble
  • Extroverts
  • Helicopter pilot

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Dark

• Before all else, be armed.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Armed

• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • American
  • Loyalty

• As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Thankful
  • Realized