Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes

She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

Elizabeth Chadwick

• Grief
• Prison
• Scream
• Defenses

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• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

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  • Work
  • Great
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• Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

  

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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

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• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

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• I'm honored to have the endorsement of FreedomWorks. I look forward to earning the individual support of the grassroots conservatives who make up the heart and soul of this organization that has done so much to promote freedom and pro-growth fiscal policies.

  

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  • Up
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• So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.

  

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• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

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  • Good
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• I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
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• All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

  

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  • Wife
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• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

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• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  

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  • Up
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• The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

  

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• I charged Mr. Pitt with having come into office upon unconstitutional grounds, and upon such principles as were disgraceful to himself, disgusting to the country, and such as must necessarily deprive him and his coadjutors of the confidence of that House.

  

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• I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team.

  

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• No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

  

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• As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

  

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• When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.

  

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• She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Grief
  • Prison
  • Scream