Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

Elizabeth Wein

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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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• It is always your next move.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Move
  • Next

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Today
  • Night
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Idea
  • Point

• 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?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Andrei Sakharov

• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe

• Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Inspiration
  • Actors
  • Characters

• I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Art
  • True
  • Vision

• There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Moments
  • Atheist
  • Believer

• I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Hours later I knew for certain I had felt the presence of this choking, slaving smell before, sometime when I was very young, inside my sleep, but this does not occur to me at the time. I come back out into the main room. I stand among the pictures and the light. I decide there’s no reason to report this, that I should not have come here, that I feel older than I ever had all through my blood. I feel dizzy in the middle of the photographs of her, the mirrors, a silent catacomb of eyes. That’s when I realize I’m being recorded.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Light
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Light
  • Sky
  • Holes