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Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 3, 1949 - December 7, 2010

Topics

Yourself Resilience Matter Matters

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

Jet Li

Love Story You Tiger Talk Hidden

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love Fear Darkness Death Pain Know

Everything about a date is weird, especially if it's a new person you don't really know. You want to take them somewhere you think they're going to like, but you don't want to ask that question because you want to look like you're in control of the situation. So I think dates are just weird in general.

Matt Cohen

Control Think Weird You Look Person

I was very worried about my mother, growing up - a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Angelina Jolie

Mother Children Me Growing Up Want

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Angela Carter

Father Back Never Ruins Like Even

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Robin Day

Work Go Well Get Any Could

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

Light Gravity Strings Different Than

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

Mo Farah

Yourself Year You Getting Old Old

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Good Pressure Show Regardless

When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

Jonathan Stroud

Coffee Day Cake Free Think Nice

I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.

Diana Gabaldon

People Reading Language Look Image

Anyone can sing badly, but to sing badly on purpose and make it believable is harder. I listen for the actual melody in my head but sing right underneath or above it out loud. It takes a lot of concentration.

Colleen Ballinger

Purpose Listen Right Out Head Above