Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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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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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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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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If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
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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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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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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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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 less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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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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The military is already sexually integrated.
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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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I come out of real life.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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My father had gone to Vietnam.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.