Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Consciousness
  • Product

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Future
  • Architecture

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Colleagues

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Want
  • Deep
  • Choices

• God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Brain
  • Goes

• The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Society
  • Travel
  • Destination

• Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Product

• I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • She
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Think

• People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Up

• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  

  Euripides
  • Destiny
  • Tears
  • Accept

• Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Pride
  • Horse
  • Distance

• What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Success
  • Pride
  • Choice