Elizabeth Wein Quotes

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Faith
  • Christ

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Society
  • You
  • Educated

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Movie

• One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Clothes

• Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Things

• [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Writing
  • Jump
  • Stills

• I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Woman

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Country
  • Name
  • Writer

• I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
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  • Piece
  • Ruined