Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.

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• And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Me
  • Word

• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Want
  • Pretty
  • Down

• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Romantic

• There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Years
  • Back
  • Playoffs

• I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • History
  • Amazing

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • City
  • Library
  • Greatest

• Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Free
  • Exercise

• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Day
  • Justice

• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
  • Me
  • Kind

• God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge

• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Life
  • Up

• Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Famous
  • Friendship

• These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Movie

• Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Road

• I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Experience
  • Pretty
  • Church

• Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Long
  • Friendship

• Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Scared
  • Worth
  • Starts

• Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Brave
  • Scared