Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dance
  • Used
  • Ballet

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Country
  • You
  • Lunch

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Quality

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Free
  • Control

• Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Drawing

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Husband
  • Slavery

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Time
  • Die
  • Deep

• Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Knowledge

• Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Experience
  • Today
  • Painting

• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Worry

• The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

  

  James F. Byrnes
  • Control
  • Failure
  • German

• All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Heart
  • Human Beings
  • Cries