Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Goodness
• Desperate
• Doubts

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Past
  • Young
  • Now

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • May
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading
  • Literature

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Children
  • True
  • Disappointment

• I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Time
  • School
  • Rock

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • King

• To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Pain
  • Doubt

• Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Goodness