Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It is always your next move.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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What man can blameThe Greekes and Trojans to endure, for so admired a Dame,So many miseries, and so long? In her sweet countenance shineLookes like the Godesses.
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I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
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All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
