Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Career
  • Trust

• I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Woman

• Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

  

  Anthony de Mello

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• … the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • History

• I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

  

  Bridgette Wilson
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Career

• The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

  

  William James
  • World
  • Mind
  • Moving

• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Opinion
  • Daily

• I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Influences

• Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heart
  • Child
  • Truths

• But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Heart
  • Helping
  • Christianity

• Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Heart
  • Charity
  • Brandy