Emily Eden Quotes

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Emily Eden

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• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Honest

• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Experience
  • History
  • Myself

• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

• No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Life
  • Good

• My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  

  Chris Elliott

• If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

  

  John Irving
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • People

• It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Distance

• So-called gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Gay

• Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Unless he really starts feeling good, in all likelihood I wouldn't think he'd go this week.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Men
  • Why
  • High

• Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Trust
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Theologian

• I've always been a coffee-lovin' fool, from the time I was a kid.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Coffee

• The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Secret
  • Existence

• The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Fool
  • Teach

• The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Sense

• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  

  Emily Eden
  • Fool
  • Secret
  • Instinct