Elizabeth Wein Quotes

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

Elizabeth Wein

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• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Go
  • Once

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Health

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Like
  • Liberal

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Creativity
  • Enthusiasm

• The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Motivational

• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Things
  • Said
  • Will

• I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wisdom
  • Defeat
  • Wisest

• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • Death
  • Evil

• The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

  

  Bernard Williams

• The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Work
  • Suppose
  • Chose