Top 100 Quotes About Barbara
#2. The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.
Barbara Quick
#3. In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#4. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush
#5. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#6. I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.
Barbara Kruger
#7. Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
#8. The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible - and usually we've been told by people without much experience.
Barbara Sher
#9. Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
Barbara Johnson
#10. And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.
Barbara Park
#11. but it's a good feeling and one does so like to have that.
Barbara Pym
#12. Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.
Barbara Bretton
#14. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#15. Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
Barbara Kingsolver
#16. Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
Barbara Kruger
#17. Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
Barbara De Angelis
#18. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
#19. A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan
#20. Barbara [Stanwyck] and me in our only scene alone in Titanic. It wasn't much of a scene, but it sparked one of the most intense and rewarding relationships of my life.
Robert Wagner
#21. It is clearer now that no anti-Semitic government in any country has ever helped its scapegoats to leave by any other door than death.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#22. And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
Tom Selleck
#23. That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
Barbara Mandrell
#27. You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
Barbara Kingsolver
#28. Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.
Barbara G. Walker
#29. Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver
#30. I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
Barbara Tuchman
#31. There are no coincidences. The universe works in its own way to join those of us who need to be connected.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#33. Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
Barbara Mikulski
#35. Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Barbara Olson
#36. Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?
Anna Wintour
#37. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher
#38. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?
Barbara Brown Taylor
#39. When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
Barbara Kingsolver
#40. Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
Barbara Johnson
#41. When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence of our deceased loved ones, we find ourselves living with joy, hope and peace.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#42. Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
Barbara Mertz
#44. We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.
Barbara Jordan
#45. You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.
Tracy Letts
#46. In all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
Barbara De Angelis
#47. When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#48. When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like the piece of trash he was. He'd never be loved. He didn't deserve that either.
Barbara Elsborg
#49. The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
Barbara Mikulski
#50. Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
Barbara Kingsolver
#51. Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
Barbara Mikulski
#52. There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
Barbara Boxer
#53. My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#56. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#57. You always say you're fine, because in reality you remain quite distant from each other, and you can't just say, Things are terrible. If you only knew how bad I feel today.
Barbara Honigmann
#59. I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
Barbara Christian
#60. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#61. In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#63. Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
#64. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.
Barbara Woodhouse
#65. What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith
#67. The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it ... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'
Barbara Corcoran
#68. Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.
Barbara Coloroso
#69. I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#71. If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.
Barbara C. Doyle
#72. Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
#73. Live life to the fullest, love deeply and laugh a lot. Be proud of what you see in the mirror and you will have no wrinkles!
Barbara Post-Askin
#74. I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
Barbara Fialho
#75. Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#76. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#77. Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
Barbara Kingsolver
#78. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
#79. It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
Barbara Marciniak
#80. Whatever the era ... one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
Barbara Bush
#82. I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out.
Barbara Kingsolver
#83. Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife.
Barbara Longley
#85. Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#86. What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell
#87. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.
Barbara Pym
#89. However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.
Barbara Holland
#90. Just the kind of underclothes a person like me might wear, I thought dejectedly, so there is no need to describe them.
Barbara Pym
#91. We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.
Barbara Sher
#92. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Barbara Kingsolver
#93. You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
Barbara Boxer
#95. When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Barbara Tuchman
#96. The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Barbara Myerhoff
#97. Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again ... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth
#98. Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.
Barbara Vine
#99. Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#100. Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.
Sean Hannity
