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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. — Kenneth Tynan

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? — Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt

the toe of an enormous and heroic — Eleanor Roosevelt

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick! — Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt. — Barbara Boxer

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress. — Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Be confident, not certain — Eleanor Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief of all joy. — Eleanor Roosevelt

People can only make you inferior with your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you. — Gore Vidal

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor — Eleanor Roosevelt

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do something that scares you everyday. — Melina Marchetta

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Well-behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. — Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Some friends leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Eleanor Roosevelt