Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Submission to what people call their "lot" is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shrieks of your relations, to their gibes or their entreaties; don't let your own microscopic set prescribe your goings-out and comings-in; don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbor in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize the opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Family

• Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Everything

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Better

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Family
  • Learning

• The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you didn't say things like they say now, out loud, about race and things. But that's just progress. When are we going to find out that we're all the same - we're all absolutely, without a doubt, the same?

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Emotional

• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Time
  • Good

• Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Men
  • Science
  • Smart

• Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

  

  Arthur C. Nielsen
  • Problems
  • Clients
  • Confidential

• When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

  

  Bridget Hall
  • Friends

• Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Elude

• I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Energy
  • Film
  • Independent

• Submission to what people call their "lot" is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shrieks of your relations, to their gibes or their entreaties; don't let your own microscopic set prescribe your goings-out and comings-in; don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbor in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize the opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Opportunity
  • Independent
  • Relations