Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Conscious
• Don't Believe
• Loveliness

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• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Terrible
  • Suspense

• It will work. I am a marketing genius.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Genius
  • Marketing

• I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Style

• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Change
  • Stop

• To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Soul
  • Peace

• If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle

• It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Party
  • Leaving

• Make sure your work is never results-oriented. The result is a byproduct of the work, in a way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Work

• Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Father
  • Government

• Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Life
  • Night
  • Firsts

• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happy
  • Conscious
  • Don't Believe