Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Roots

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  

  Jack Kroll
  • People
  • Joy
  • Artist

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
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• Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Technology

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Why
  • Know

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I'd like to see you out in the moonlight.I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks.I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers.And I'd like to check you for ticks.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Kiss

• Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day -That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year - That might have sat beside me here.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Happy

• There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Great

• I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

  

  King Hu
  • Hero

• The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Obstacles
  • States

• Spanish women are so sexy. The way they move and talk drives me crazy!

  

  Mikaela Hoover
  • Women
  • Crazy
  • Spanish

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

  

  Phil LaMarr

• In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • High

• Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Married
  • Beginnings