Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • You

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Age
  • Lazy
  • Three

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Will
  • Two
  • Drink

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Time
  • Kids

• When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Sun

• Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Life
  • Player
  • Positions

• Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

  

  Bruce Feiler
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  • Kids
  • Tired

• I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
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  • Parents

• Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

  

  Elizabeth Bowen
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