Quotes About Lillian Wald

#1. She knew that what made Sr. Adria decide had been the delicate way she had taken the book that he handed her by surprise: she took it delicately, almost lovingly, just as Elisa picked up the embroidery box when she found out about the death of her lover in Elisa Grant by Ballys (Pittsburg, 1883).

Jaume Cabre

#2. Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

Lillian Wald

#3. Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church

Sunday Adelaja

#4. It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.

Redman

#5. Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests
in everything; the measure of the swing to the right,
is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm
compensates

Three Initiates

#6. When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

Lillian Wald

#8. In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Carlton Cuse

#9. The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

Lillian Wald

#10. On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#11. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

Jack Pritchard