Quotes about t
travel mind conversation
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. Elizabeth Drew
temptation wicked virtuous
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. Elizabeth Bibesco
tested knows capable
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. Elizabeth Blackwell
thinking want degrees
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. Elizabeth Edwards
thinking cells research
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
this-life
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
thinking men marvelous
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
thinking voters consideration
I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
thinking self humans
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
treasure diagnosis this-life
This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
taken greatness want
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen
thinking people important
Education is not so important as people think.
two people childhood
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.
thinking literature shows
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ties remember tradition
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
truth honesty speak
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
truth mean reality
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.
truth years two
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
trying levels should
[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
travel wall real
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.
travel journey littles
Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
trouble should difficulty
one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
together done violence
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
thinking doubt atheism
When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.
truth ideas safe
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
thinking talking speech
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
thinking faults mankind
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
thinking suffering enjoy
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
teaching men civilization
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.
truth learning safe
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
teaching aggravation church
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
truth giving world
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
taken government self
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.