Ilse Lehiste Quotes

#1. Be stubborn if you wish to, if you need to, but we know how this will end.

Chloe Neill

#2. In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.

Kathleen Norris

#3. Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

Michael Rost

#4. Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny ... it is also her vulnerability.

Susan Sontag

#5. An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

Loretta Chase

#6. Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

Socrates

#7. No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest.

Ilse Lehiste

#8. To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

#9. What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Chip Esten

#10. Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.

Mark Deklin

#11. Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

Jodie Foster

#12. Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it.

Lynne Tillman