Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than to read him, as was hitherto my habit, on Sunday mornings in the garden. He is a person who loves the open air, and will refuse to give you much pleasure if you try to read him amid the pomp and circumstance of upholstery; but out in the sun, and especially by this pond, he is delightful, and we spend the happiest hours together, he making statements, and I either agreeing heartily, or just laughing and reserving my opinion till I shall have more ripely considered the thing.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Done
  • Truth

• The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Control
  • Justice

• It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Good
  • Talent

• Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • America
  • Think
  • Hero

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • May

• Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Life
  • Long
  • Book

• A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Legacy
  • November

• I didn't have any idea what politics was like. I was surprised at how difficult it is to get something done. In the private world, if I have an idea, I just do it.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • World
  • Done

• It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

  

  Amy Weber

• Making a film is a challenge.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Challenge

• My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

  

  Elias James Corey
  • World

• Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

  

  Maurice Druon
  • Society

• I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

  

  Simon Baker
  • World
  • Kids
  • Citizens

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• Kissing don't last: cookery do!

  

  George Meredith

• If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Laughing
  • Ifs
  • Wrinkles

• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Earth

• Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than to read him, as was hitherto my habit, on Sunday mornings in the garden. He is a person who loves the open air, and will refuse to give you much pleasure if you try to read him amid the pomp and circumstance of upholstery; but out in the sun, and especially by this pond, he is delightful, and we spend the happiest hours together, he making statements, and I either agreeing heartily, or just laughing and reserving my opinion till I shall have more ripely considered the thing.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Opinion
  • Air
  • Habit