Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other very well, and couche, schönmachen, and pfui continued for a long time to be my whole vocabulary.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Working
  • Hard
  • Opportunities

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Band
  • Realize

• I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Always
  • Things
  • Natural

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

  

  Laura Harring
  • World
  • May
  • Fashion

• It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Present

• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Political

• I got a granite chin.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Got
  • Chin
  • Granite

• I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Believe
  • Death
  • End

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda - not only in word but in deed.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Dream
  • Trump

• In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • America
  • Names
  • Dogs

• Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other very well, and couche, schönmachen, and pfui continued for a long time to be my whole vocabulary.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • English
  • German
  • Dogs