Elizabeth Keen Quotes

#1. There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

Walter Wriston

#2. I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#3. Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

Margaret Cho

#4. Can a cat be the true love of a human's life? The one great and enduring emotional connection?

Andrew Miller

#5. Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

Hugh Grant

#6. For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

Barack Obama

#7. He figures she must contain a carbon core. A soul as hard as a diamond. So what happens when a diamond finally breaks?

Blake Crouch

#8. The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

Alphonsus Liguori

#9. In our course through life we shall meet the people who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,' was the composed reply; 'and what it is set to us to do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all be done.

Charles Dickens

#10. The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget.

A Meredith Walters