Nina Stibbe Quotes

#1. It looked like the basket of someone keen to live life to the full

Nina Stibbe

#2. Me: What will I do?

MK: What you always do--only in Switzerland.

Nina Stibbe

#3. No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Walter Lippmann

#4. I'll think about going (to yoga). But I'm not sure I want to be that relaxed. I am who I am and I might not do so well as a relaxed person.

Nina Stibbe

#5. No one wants to set foot outside unless it's to go somewhere

Nina Stibbe

#6. A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

Charles Brent

#7. Don't do that thing of making it an excuse to do less, do more

Nina Stibbe

#8. I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only normal one.

Nina Stibbe

#9. Be thankful that she knows your name and be careful never to forget hers.

Rachel Wiley

#10. Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be unreadable (except by the author).

Nina Stibbe

#11. The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

Jack McDevitt

#12. It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

Fay Vincent

#13. Women have been ignored but have been their own worse enemy

Nina Stibbe

#14. I saw power, yet meekness, forcefulness, yet gentleness, discipline, yet compassion. I had never seen eyes like His.

Chuck Black

#15. I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.

Joan Didion

#17. She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

Kristin Cashore

#18. They don't need judging, they self judge

Nina Stibbe