Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Great
  • War
  • Leader

• You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • You
  • Always
  • Without

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Man
  • Proud

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Society
  • Trust

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’

  

  Barbara Boxer

• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Scars

• Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Steps
  • Doubts

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith
  • Moments
  • Vice

• I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Human Life
  • Pull