Esther Forbes Quotes

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

Esther Forbes

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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Joyful

• Investors do seem to be comfortable with the Koizumi agenda. The fact that there are ever clearer signs that he is going to be returned is going to provide the yen with support.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Support
  • Investors
  • Agenda

• Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Want
  • Easy
  • Backwards

• I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Pride
  • Tradition

• You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Situation
  • Improve
  • Running Away

• Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Black
  • Me
  • Stand

• I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Created

• It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Endless

• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feelings
  • Tolerance
  • Qualities

• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sound
  • Flaws
  • Thee

• If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think a generation later when in fact it had not arrived? One might conclude that Jesus was wrong. But if one wanted to stay true to him, one might change the message that he proclaimed so that he no longer spoke about the coming apocalypse. So it is no accident that our final canonical Gospel, John, written after that first generation, no longer has Jesus proclaim an apocalyptic message. He preaches something else entirely.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Generation
  • Gospel

• Listen, you've got two ears and one mouth, they've got the majority so shut up.

  

  Paul Colman Newsboys
  • Listen
  • Mouth
  • Shut Up

• Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • See
  • Hands
  • Jazz

• You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Afraid
  • Forces
  • Shut Up

• Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Alliance

• Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Song
  • Memories

• If you can't do, you had best shut up.

  

  Esther Forbes
  • Shut Up
  • Can't Do