Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Quotes to Explore
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
Rachel Bilson
I'm very humble.
Zach LaVine
We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
Gary Ross
You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
Janet Jackson
It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
Christina Aguilera
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
Wilhelm II
The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.
Olympia Snowe
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Yusef Lateef
Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
Alfred Austin
Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
J. C. Ryle
If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
Oprah Winfrey
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Amy Poehler
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
P. J. O'Rourke
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .
Joanne Rowling
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.
Claude C. Hopkins
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J. I. Packer
