Seven Husbands Quotes

#1. You said, "Ellie, this is the truth, everybody leaves. Everybody." I was just seven, and when I reached for you, you were death and absence and missing take you. You were where bad husbands disappear to. And you were whispering. "Just ask them.

Carmen Rodrigues

#2. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Daniel Craig

#4. The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Martial

#5. Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

Anna Gavalda

#6. If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

Karin Slaughter

#7. Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale

#8. I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

Andy Serkis

#9. I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.

John Lanchester

#10. I usually never walk by a microphone.

Ronald Reagan

#11. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#12. I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

Lana Turner

#13. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Charles Simeon

#14. In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

Olivier Theyskens

#15. A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#17. Sex is sex. Love is love. The first is a raw biological process, the latter is something more.

Christopher Buecheler

#18. Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere ... for the solace to its troubles.

Pope Leo XIII

#19. But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber.

Soren Kierkegaard