Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

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• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Goal
  • Budget

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Stage
  • Performance
  • Events

• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Me
  • End

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Great

• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Walking
  • Shadow
  • Disappointment

• My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • History

• You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Doubt

• I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Long
  • Mother

• I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Music

• Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Life
  • Love
  • Soul

• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Deaths

• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Matters
  • Seriously

• Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Matters
  • Resilience
  • Deciding