Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Elizabeth Wein

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• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • God
  • Never
  • Child

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Never
  • Page
  • Facebook

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Human

• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Life
  • Cynical

• The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Space
  • Mission

• I view myself as a dealmaker.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Myself
  • View

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Society
  • Courage

• There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Man
  • Always
  • Woman

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Live

• LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

  

  David Ricardo
  • May

• When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Race

• The Jewish people can do a lot of good if we stay united and strong - Israel and the Diaspora working together. If we don't, I always worry about the continuation of the Jewish people in Israel and abroad.

  

  Charles Bronfman
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  

  Catherine Booth
  • God
  • Real
  • War

• Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Treacherous