My Year With Eleanor Quotes

#1. The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Dennis Prager

#2. If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Larry McMurtry

#3. I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

Johnny Cash

#4. At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. Eleanor Vance was thirty-two years old when she came to Hill House. The only person in the world she genuinely hated, now that her mother was dead, was her sister. She disliked her brother-in-law and her five-year-old niece, and she had no friends.

Shirley Jackson

#6. A year on, Eleanor remained haunted by what happened to her. She still had no idea where the bacteria came from. Perhaps the foot soak and pedicure she had gotten at a small hair-and-nail shop the day before that wedding.

Atul Gawande

#7. In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Matt Dillon

#8. I love to play the game of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.

Dusty Rhodes

#10. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.

Shirley Jackson

#11. The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Eleanor Farjeon

#12. The moon is out all day. I don't want to shock you.

Bill Nye

#13. I didn't write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don't get endings.
They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

Eleanor Catton

#15. We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

Loren Cunningham

#16. Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Danielle Steel

#17. Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Leo Buscaglia