Emily V. Gordon Quotes

You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.

Emily V. Gordon

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• The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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  • Life
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• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
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• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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  • Life
  • Music

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Best

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Variety

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Life
  • Story
  • Painful

• Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.

  

  Alexander Downer
  • Police

• I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • World
  • Mother
  • Humanity

• Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Looks
  • Promise

• I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Human Life

• You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Life
  • Control
  • Decision