Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Wish
  • Ever
  • Else

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Money
  • Power
  • Influence

• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Sacrifice

• Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Real
  • Vision

• God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Words
  • Silence
  • Conceal

• The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.

  

  Karen Denise Aubert
  • God
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • World
  • Violence

• My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Guy
  • Wife

• Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Life

• Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own revolutionary culture. This can be done only by creating perfect disorder within the cycle of the enemy culture's life process and leaving a power vacuum to be filled by our building revolutionary culture.

  

  George Jackson
  • Culture
  • Process
  • Aim

• Ratings are a long, slow process to change, ... We are happy to take the time.

  

  Jonathan Klein
  • Change
  • Process
  • Ratings

• My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • People
  • Great
  • Legacy

• Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Sense
  • Where
  • Interfere

• Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
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