Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

Eleanor Farjeon

• Life
• Together
• Giving
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• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • History
  • Deep
  • Modernity

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Describe

• The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Job
  • Chicago
  • Bus

• Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Book
  • Power

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Future

• Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.

  

  Logic

• Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Men
  • She
  • Sweet

• Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Long
  • Country
  • Presidential

• Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Singing

• I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.

  

  Laurie Graham

• I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Words

• I have fun at work.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Work
  • Fun

• I never know when chat-up lines are happening! I don't hear them enough. I don't get hit on enough.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Up

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Free
  • Way
  • WIld

• A film about my life? But I am not dead.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Life
  • Faith

• The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

  

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Sense

• I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Life
  • Together
  • Giving