Edith Caroline Rivett (E. C. R. Lorac) Quotes

ideas are dangerous commodities.

Edith Caroline Rivett

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Struggle

• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Marriage

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Kids
  • Desire

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Horse
  • Lady

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Friends

• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Things
  • Now
  • Bravery

• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Science
  • Like
  • Geography

• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Better
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Hero

• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Difference
  • Knowing
  • Wit

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Steps
  • Weapons

• I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Time
  • Home
  • Baby

• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Principle
  • Progressive

• When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Day

• I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Internet
  • Security
  • Abuse

• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Women

• I don't want to have that one year too much, where people actually, behind my back, start smiling at me and pointing fingers at me and go, 'Ah, look, that's Jensie. No, he's not good anymore.'

  

  Jens Voigt
  • People
  • Good

• A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Why

• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Sex
  • Gay

• There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Style
  • Football
  • Changed

• Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Depression

• ideas are dangerous commodities.

  

  Edith Caroline Rivett