Top 100 Quotes About Esther
#4. Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
John Eldredge
#5. Don't you touch her,' threatened Esther, 'or I'll claw your face off.'
Steven turned away from Abigail and eyed Esther instead. 'I'd like to see you try.'
'I bet you would,' snapped Esther, ' you've got such an ugly mug it'd probably make for an improvement.
Jack Croxall
#6. I get the impression that Mordecai misinterpreted Esther's message. It sounded to him like she was trying to hide her nationality and avoid the responsibility of presenting herself to the king. Had he seen and heard her in person, he probably would have judged her differently.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#7. I was married then. I was the happiest of the happy. - Esther Summerson
Charles Dickens
#8. Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.
Francine Rivers
#9. BEN-HUR." Esther returned the letter to her father, while a choking sensation gathered in her throat. There was not a word in the missive for her
not even in the salutation had she a share
and it would have been so easy to have written "and to thine, peace." For the first time
Lew Wallace
#10. Jewelry and clothes for Isabel and Polly. A piece of the Berlin Wall for Esther.
Liane Moriarty
#11. Esther's voice softened. 'Please, we're begging you ...
Jack Croxall
#12. No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?
Susan Marg
#13. Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.
August Wilson
#14. Esther runs Unalaq's ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years ...
David Mitchell
#15. Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.
David Mitchell
#16. I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.
Paullina Simons
#17. Thy heart is good, Esther, good as thy mother's was; and I pray
it have not the fate of most good hearts
to be trampled upon
by the unmerciful and blind.
Lew Wallace
#18. And remember, sometimes our dreams appear where and when we least expect it. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can even find them waiting in your own bed when you open your eyes. (Esther)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.
Adam Rex
#20. What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!
Esther Hicks
#21. Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
William Gaddis
#22. Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
Clive Sinclair
#23. as I lay there with Esther in my arms, I realized I had never felt so content.
Kaye Blue
#25. There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.
Eowyn Ivey
#26. You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins.
Mr. Woodcourt
Charles Dickens
#27. Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
Clive Sinclair
#28. It was said with humor, but the criticism wasn't lost on Gamache. He was fishing, and he knew it. So did Sommes. So did Esther. We're all fishermen, she'd said.
Louise Penny
#29. That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.
Jeff Atwood
#30. Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty
John Green
#31. I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.
Francois Englert
#32. I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie should eat.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#33. Dr. Paul Farmer said it best: "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Esther helped us see the truth in that statement.
Steve Jenkins
#34. Etsuko was given the name Esther by her teacher, Mr. Slater, on her first day of school. "It's his mother's name," she explained. To which we replied, "So is yours.
Julie Otsuka
#35. Esther loses her virginity, hemorrhages during the process, and almost bleeds to death - like Catherine in A Farewell to Arms - and I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature.
Matthew Quick
#36. I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.
Margaret Sanger
#37. The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
Victor LaValle
#38. Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.
Fanny Brice
#40. Joseph chuckled to himself, feeling downright giddy. Oh, yes, his son was falling hard. He had picked out the perfect wife, it seemed. He moved over to Esther and nudged her in the arm so the two of them could
Melody Anne
#41. At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells."
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?"
"Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. "But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.
Joyce Carol Oates
#42. When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
Jacki Weaver
#43. She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind of warmth that clicked your bones back into place, smoothed out your muscles and made your blood sing a soft lullaby all the way around your body.
Joy Cowley
#44. No, enjoy it while you can. Esther said as she walked out alone.
Barry Gray
#45. Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know."
Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered.
"Do you belong to someone?"
"That's different."
"Because you're a grown-up?
Cornelia Funke
#46. I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
Edward Herrmann
#47. Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
Paulo Coelho
#48. I certainly don't have any interest in being on a dark veranda with any man except my husband, unlike some women do. - Esther Norman
Barry Gray
#49. Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed.
Sarah Dessen
#50. Doesn't your work interest you, Esther?
You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic.
You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that.
Sylvia Plath
#51. Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes
Tim Harford
#52. Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.
Joyce Carol Oates
#53. I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
John Waters
#54. He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so.
Gwendoline Riley
#55. Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Clive Sinclair
#56. but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the 'Coronation of Esther' which hung in our church,
Marcel Proust
#57. A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." - Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L
MariJo Moore
#58. Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies.
George Eliot
#59. You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
Sarah Dessen
#60. Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game.
Rob Manuel
#61. Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us - men and women - are extremely passive and cowardly. We don't take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.
Kevin DeYoung
#62. Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.
Matthew Henry
#64. My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.
Fay Weldon
#65. We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.
Ben Marcus
#66. The whole Esther Williams of it all. The ostrich ballet. Like pirouetting feather dusters; their paddle feet in fourth position.
Durga Chew-Bose
#67. My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention.
John Green
#68. Laying a good foundation in all you do secures the future because when the storm comes it will definitely trouble you but you won't fall.
Regards
Esther
Esther Samson
#69. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#70. If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?
Esther M. Friesner
#71. You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.
Esther Hicks
#72. Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
Esther Hicks
#73. A wonderful book ... Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
Esther Freud
#74. People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
Esther Dyson
#75. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
Esther Earl
#76. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.
Sylvia Plath
#77. Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now ... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?
Esther Hicks
#79. If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.
Esther M. Friesner
#80. You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.
Esther Hicks
#81. It is not your job to make something happen - Universal Forces are in place for all of that. Your work is to simply determine what you want.
Esther Hicks
#82. There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.
Esther Hicks
#85. Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.
Esther Hicks
#86. Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.
Esther Hicks
#87. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
Esther Vilar
#88. What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Esther Dyson
#89. We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought
Esther Hicks
#90. The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.
Esther Hicks
#91. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming
Esther Hicks
#93. Once individuals have the motivation to do something different, the whole world can begin to change. The
Esther Cameron
#94. I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
Esther Hicks
#95. If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
Esther Peterson
#96. Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
Esther Perel
#97. I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.
Esther Hicks
#98. However, she was not a rational woman, and she did not reconsider.
Esther Dalseno
#99. Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther Forbes
#100. Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
Esther Williams
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