Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.
Elizabeth Thornton
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Mandy Patinkin
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
P. J. O'Rourke
My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
Rami Malek
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
Vera Farmiga
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Camille Paglia
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Samuel Hopkins
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
Randy Travis
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
Park Chan-wook
If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
I can't do impressions.
Ellie Kemper
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
Tom Stoppard
Science is not always what scientists do.
J. Allen Hynek
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
Zubin Mehta
I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.
Frederick W. Taylor
When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.
Elizabeth Thornton
