Elizabeth Bear Quotes

I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

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• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Home
  • Immigration
  • Solution

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Small
  • Solution

• Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • World
  • War
  • Solution

• All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Achievement
  • Solution

• Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Know
  • Paid

• Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

  

  James Cook
  • Solution
  • Issue
  • Liberals

• And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Paid

• If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Question
  • Problem

• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heart
  • Problem
  • Mankind

• Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother's makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that Wondered why I couldn't carry a purse.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Enjoyed
  • Carry
  • Wondered

• A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Smile
  • Paid
  • Rewarded

• No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Shame
  • Solution
  • Remorse

• I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Money
  • Audience
  • Point

• It takes a revolution, to create a solution...

  

  Bob Marley
  • Revolution
  • Solution

• Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • Day
  • Beauty

• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Preacher

• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Guy

• I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Solution
  • Paid
  • Wondered