Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
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One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
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I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
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If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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The military is already sexually integrated.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to these authors' experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.