Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • World
  • Moving
  • Grow

• I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Respect
  • Gifted

• Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Emotion
  • Run

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Baby
  • Perspective
  • They Say

• Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • Being
  • Seen

• Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Improvement

• Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

  

  James Balog
  • People
  • Time
  • Wonder

• I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Opinion

• If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Men
  • Different
  • Morning

• Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith

• There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • Kids
  • America

• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Life
  • Empty
  • Suspicion