Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

Elsie de Wolfe

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
  • Church
  • Religion

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Privacy

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Trying
  • May
  • Things

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• ’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • City
  • Sweet

• Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Science

• There is no need to pose for anything - you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born with unique characteristics and we have to stick to that. Yes, use the tools to enhance it, but we shouldn't be hiding behind them. That's what style is about.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Strong
  • Style
  • Unique

• When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Experience

• New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

  

  Joel Salatin

• I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Children
  • Mother

• Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hand

• The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Men
  • Children
  • Passion

• I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Growing
  • Joy
  • Happiness