Carolyn Green Quotes

I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

Carolyn Green

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Law

• I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Food

• It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Famous

• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • American
  • Security

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Long
  • Death
  • Water

• No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • May

• Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Different
  • Cool
  • Perception

• Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Control
  • Present

• You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Power

• One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight, and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Weird
  • Celebrity
  • Homeless

• Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Bad
  • Song

• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Childhood

• Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Stories

• You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Family
  • Control

• I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

  

  Carolyn Green
  • Divorce
  • Widowhood