Elizabeth Wein Quotes

It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

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• Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Fall
  • Myself
  • Never

• It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Voice
  • Tough

• 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Problem

• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Nothing
  • Memory
  • Fleeting

• There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Mood
  • Weather
  • Fog

• I feel like if they want us to dress a certain way, they should pay for our clothes. It's just tough, man, knowing that all of a sudden you have to have a dress code out of nowhere. I don't think that's going to help the image of the league at all. ... It kind of makes it fake. The whole thing is fake.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Help
  • Clothes
  • Fake

• My hobbies are run-on sentences.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Running
  • Sentences
  • Hobbies

• Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Kindness

• It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Soldier
  • Priority
  • Priorities

• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Behinds
  • Dust
  • Meteors

• Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Tax

• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Battle
  • Blessing

• The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Kid

• To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Late

• It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Battle
  • Flirting
  • Banter