Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes

#1. It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and
see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years.
Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#2. I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

Steven Millhauser

#3. Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

Rand Paul

#4. Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#5. Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#6. We hold this myth to be potential
Not self-evident but equational
Another Dimension
Of another kind of Living Life

Sun Ra

#7. To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Machado De Assis

#8. Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he's had enough." "Yes,

Elizabeth Chadwick

#9. Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#10. Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#11. Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Karl Marx

#12. As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

#13. Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one

Elizabeth Chadwick

#14. Chretien speaking to Dominic:
'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.'
'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#15. With writing, we have second chances.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#17. It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool ... Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#18. There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#19. Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

#20. I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#21. She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#22. Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there. Just like God's love, or a father's, or a mother's. Remember that, Alienor. You are loved, whether you see it or not.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#23. All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#24. What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman

Elizabeth Chadwick

#25. When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.

Matt Schulze

#26. When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#27. In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that.

John Green

#28. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#29. Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.

Henry James