Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Family
  • Community
  • Question

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Character
  • Guy

• Men need to live and breathe women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Together
  • True
  • Diversity

• Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Moving
  • Away

• I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

  

  Evelyn Ashford
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Discover
  • Brotherhood
  • Peoples

• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Kill
  • Shame
  • Autobiography

• I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • Critics
  • Pictures
  • Spirits

• But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Discover
  • Shame
  • Faint