Barbara Erskine Quotes

#1. Proverbs 22:3 says that "the prudent man sees the evil and hides himself." Sometimes physically removing yourself from a situation will help maintain boundaries. You can do this to replenish yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually after you have given to your limit, as Jesus often did.

Henry Cloud

#2. Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

Bette Davis

#4. Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

Jack Germond

#6. Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

John Irving

#7. I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

Christopher Monckton

#8. Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

Barbara Erskine

#9. Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Robin Sharma

#10. Glass can break, but that doesn't mean it's weak. Sometimes the shards are all we get. I

Rebekah Crane

#11. I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

Alison Weir