Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • School
  • Bad

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Fact

• Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

• I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • God
  • Girl

• The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Rock

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hope

• Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

  

  John Constable
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Book
  • Lost

• Sometimes there Is no happy choice, only one less grievous than the others.

  

  Kit Harington
  • Choice
  • Grievous

• But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Foundation