Top 100 Candace's Quotes
#1. I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
Candace Bushnell
#2. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth
Candace Bushnell
#3. In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
Candace Kita
#4. My husband and my children inspire me on a daily basis to be the best wife, mom, and woman I can be.
Candace Cameron
#5. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.
Candace Cameron
#6. We are Necromancers, born from the pools of hell and gifted with the touch of death. - Irisi, wife of Na'shir and Priestess of Death
Candace Knoebel
#7. They want to take you away from me. They want to take away your right to follow your path. I can't let that happen. I must protect you. You must remain hidden. -Astral
Candace Knoebel
#8. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.
Candace Bushnell
#9. I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.
Candace Bushnell
#10. You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
Candace Bushnell
#11. Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.
Candace Bushnell
#12. The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
Candace Bushnell
#13. When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.
Candace Cameron
#15. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
Candace Bushnell
#17. We must clean this, and then you must leave here. He will find you. He will smell you out as I did. You are full of purity and goodness. It's like candy to my kind.
Candace Knoebel
#18. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.
Candace Bushnell
#19. I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
Candace Cameron Bure
#20. You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is doing in this moment, inflating and holding the air.
Candace Robinson
#21. My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Candace Parker
#22. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
Candace Bushnell
#23. I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
Candace Bushnell
#24. I always try to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. It's the best thing I can do for my body.
Candace Cameron
#25. God created each one of us in our own unique way. Just like a snowflake we all hold a blueprint that differs one from another. It's great to lose weight and keep our bodies healthy and strong, but it's also important that we appreciate who we are today - with or without extra pounds.
Candace Cameron
#26. There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.
Candace Cameron
#27. Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
Candace Bushnell
#28. Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.
~Laura Hecox
Candace Fleming
#29. I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell
#30. Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
Candace Bushnell
#31. Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.
Candace Havens
#32. I have to say, Middleton, I didn't think you'd have it in you."
He's looking me over, and I know what he meant was that I don't look the part. I'm too frail. Too small.
"Maybe you shouldn't think then," I retort.
Candace Knoebel
#33. There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
Candace Bushnell
#34. I've heard new believers say, "I thought God was supposed to make my life better!" But that's not why we come to Christ. We come to Him because we are great sinners and He is a great Savior.
Candace Cameron Bure
#35. What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
Candace Parker
#36. We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.
Candace Bushnell
#37. We're all a little scared sometimes, Rory. If that's what really bothering you them just remember that, okay?
Candace Knoebel
#38. My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
Candace Cameron Bure
#39. The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
Candace Bushnell
#40. If a man doesn't ask you to marry him
or at least live with him
after two years, he never will. It means he's only interested in having a good time.
Candace Bushnell
#41. Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.
Candace Bushnell
#43. It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
Candace Cameron Bure
#44. I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.
Candace Bushnell
#45. Nice try, sweetheart, but there's no way you're leaving me alone with a barely aware drunk chick. Who knows what she'll accused me of later? This time tomorrow, the cops could show up at my door, and before you know it, I'm rocking an orange jumpsuit, singing "Summer Loving" with a guy named Snake.
Candace Vianna
#46. The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
Candace Cameron Bure
#47. I eat healthy and drink a lot of water. I eliminated most white sugar and dairy from my diet. It's done wonders for me not only in maintaining a healthy weight, but it's increased my energy levels and immunity.
Candace Cameron
#48. It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, "she said, "is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.
Candace Bushnell
#49. Maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.
Candace Bushnell
#50. Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.
Candace Bushnell
#51. Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
Candace Bushnell
#52. Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?"
The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake."
"What book?"
"It's The Shadow Death Lexicon."
"Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.
J.R. Ward
#53. You always sound like you're coping pretty well on the phone."
"Don't be fooled. I have to maintain at least some shred of dignity. It's all a front for you.
Cherrie Lynn
#54. Handbags are not important anymore," Connie admonished her. "It said so in Vogue. Right now it's all about having something no one else possesses. It's about the one of a kind. The unique.
Candace Bushnell
#55. In life,there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
Candace Bushnell
#56. Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory
Candace Bushnell
#57. I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker
#58. When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.
Candace Cameron
#59. God's got my picture,' Piper reiterated, 'taped right up there on his big, big, giiinormous fridge.' She smiled. 'Because he's crazy about me. And about you, too.
Candace Calvert
#60. Maybe, maybe it's just coincidence he's here. And if it's not a coincidence, then maybe I need to hear what Mr. Creepy has to say? I mean, I could be like, a demon or something. - Aurora
Candace Knoebel
#61. I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.
Candace Bushnell
#62. You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it's exactly what I want. - Fenn
Candace Knoebel
#63. Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?
Candace Bushnell
#64. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
#65. I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.
Candace Kita
#66. That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
Candace Bushnell
#67. I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
Candace Bushnell
#68. We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.
Candace Cameron Bure
#69. There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.
Candace Bushnell
#70. Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace B. Pert
#71. Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.
Candace Bushnell
#72. I'm only going say this - love is a wild creature that cannot
be tamed. It's unconditional. And although it sometimes makes you
feel like one small person against this big old world, you must remember
you are the world to one particular person. - Astral
Candace Knoebel
#74. It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
Candace Bushnell
#75. Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.
Candace Bushnell
#76. Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.
Candace Bushnell
#77. it's okay if college isn't your thing. I'm sure there's a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig's List. Just sayin'.
Candace Vianna
#78. I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
Candace Parker
#79. It's always the people who don't want things who get them.
Candace Bushnell
#80. I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell
#81. Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.
Lisi Harrison
#82. What's done is done Castian, and can not be changed, brother.
Candace Knoebel
#83. As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.
Candace Bushnell
#84. She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.
Candace Bushnell
#85. Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.
Candace Bushnell
#86. After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
Candace Bushnell
#87. He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.
Candace Bushnell
#88. Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
Candace Bushnell
#89. Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?
Candace Bushnell
#90. I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell
#91. I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
Candace Bushnell
#92. It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.
Candace Bushnell
#93. Your Dragon has been a bit of a gigolo over the centuries, my dear. It would be easier to point out the females he hasn't nailed than to list the ones he's bedded.
Candace Blevins
#94. As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
Candace Bushnell
#95. The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
Candace Bushnell
#96. Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure
#97. Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
Candace Bushnell
#98. When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
Candace Bushnell
#99. There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell
#100. Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.
Candace Cameron
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