Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
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Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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I think God outdid Himself when He created children.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.
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A musical is never something I thought I'd do.
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Been tumbled smooth by waves
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
