Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

  

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• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

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• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

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• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

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• When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.

  

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• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

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• The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

  

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• I just want to have fun.

  

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• The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

  

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• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  

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• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  

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• I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

  

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• I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

  

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• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  

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• Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

  

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• While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Survive
  • Illness
  • Mortality