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A girl with plenty to do is sure to draw the interest of a man who's worth knowing. Be sure to get a hobby girls. — Barbara Jean Coast

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. — Barbara Sher

I think most clearly when I'm driving. Sometimes I'll just take a break and drive around - this helps a lot. — Barbara Oakley

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. — Barbara Tuchman

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. — Barbara De Angelis

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free. — Barbara Marciniak

I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma. — Barbara Corcoran

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin — Barbara W. Tuchman

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Today was the day. Every day was the day. — Barbara Kingsolver

My karma just ran over my dogma. — Barbara Johnson

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore. — Barbara Sher

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you want to be noticed, dress the part. — Barbara Corcoran

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs. — Barbara Bush

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. — Barbara Boxer

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. — Barbara Kingsolver

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. — Barbara Delinsky

characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents — Barbara Longley

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect. — Jenny Eclair

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver

Start small.
Start now.
Start everything.
And don't bother to finish any of it. — Barbara Sher

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it. — Barbara Holland

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. — Barbara Block

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells. — Barbara Stanwyck

Heavy burdens fell away so easily when one is traveling. — Barbara Hodgson

We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves. — Barbara Becker Holstein

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns. — Barbara Lee

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. — Barbara Jordan

Always choose the adventure ... unless, it's chilly outside and there's a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa. — Barbara Brooke

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver

The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best. — Barbara Kingsolver

In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi — Barbara L. Jordan

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. — Barbara Kingsolver

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. — Barbara Boxer

Life never obeys our plans, I'm afraid. — Barbara Kloss

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man. — Barbara Mertz

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written. — Barbara Casey

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... — Barbara Mertz

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. — Barbara Bush

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on. — Barbara Kingsolver

Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See. — Barbara Comyns

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good. — Barbara De Angelis

I don't usually have facials. — Barbara Fialho

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me. — Barbara Walters

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky

In the midst of events there is no perspective. — Barbara Tuchman

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger

Time cures you first, and then it kills you. — Barbara Kingsolver

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward ... once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it. — Barbara Gittings

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her. — Barbara Eden

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all. — Barbara Bush

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

True ownership of anything requires time ... — Barbara Holland

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. — Barbara Bush

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. — Barbara Mertz

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. — Barbara Jordan

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. — Barbara Tober

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

In memory Venice is always magic. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share — Barbara Corcoran

Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC. — Tom Brokaw

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. — Barbara Bush

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman

In all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer. — Barbara De Angelis

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me. — Barbara Kingsolver

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers. — Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height. — Barbara Kingsolver

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful. — Barbara Sher

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough. — Martin Gore

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. — Barbara Walters

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor. — Barbara Mertz

Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people. — Barbara Pym

Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love. — Susan Barbara Apollon

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. — Barbara Kingsolver

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside. — Barbara De Angelis

We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him. — Barbara Hughes

I'm tired now of the elections. — Barbara Bush

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ — Barbara Bisantz Raymond

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. — Barbara Cartland

Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. — Barbara Vine

Never look down on anyone unless you're looking down to offer your hand to help pick them up. — Barbara Hart

Everyone carries seeds when they talk to each other. — Barbara Renner

My worst expectations never happened. — Barbara Bush