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Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I take your point; it's this twilight that's the danger, between the old world and the new.
— Eleanor Catton
I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
— Eleanor Mondale
The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
— Eleanor Catton
One looks in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed.
— Eleanor Catton
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
— Eleanor Porter
Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.'
My thoughts exactly. — Maggie Stiefvater
My thoughts exactly. — Maggie Stiefvater
I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul;
— Eleanor Catton
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I love doing stunts. It's so much fun.
— Eleanor Tomlinson
How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours.
— Eleanor Brown
If I am dead, well, then there's somethin' 'bout you, Eleanor, that's makin' me feel like I'm still alive.
— Tabitha Freeman
Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown
When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE
— Eleanor Herman
An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.
— Eleanor Brownn
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
— Eleanor Powell
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
— Eleanor Smeal
It's dreadful to feel alone and really be alone. But
— Eleanor Catton
A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.
— Eleanor Catton
Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
— Eleanor Catton
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
— Patty Duke
Shepard's theory of law had roused his intelligence, and gratified it, and he again felt master of his faculties.
— Eleanor Catton
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
— Eleanor Catton
It'll be just lovely for you to play
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! — Eleanor Porter
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! — Eleanor Porter
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
An important question in mental health shouldn't be "What's wrong with you?" but, rather, "What's happened to you?
— Eleanor Longden
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
— Eleanor Clift
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
— Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known. — Rainbow Rowell
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known. — Rainbow Rowell
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
She was tried for trying to take her own life," Gascoigne said. "There's a symmetry in that, do you not think? Tried for trying.
— Eleanor Catton
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's ... ' She couldn't think of anything funny to say. 'Yeah, it's for you. — Rainbow Rowell
'No,' she said, 'it's ... ' She couldn't think of anything funny to say. 'Yeah, it's for you. — Rainbow Rowell
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
— Eleanor Antin
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
— Eleanor Catton
I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.
— Eleanor Prescott
You only have one life to live. Make sure it's yours.
— Eleanor Brownn
You can't tell from looking at a man what he's capable of doing. And you certainly can't tell what he's done.
— Eleanor Catton
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
— Eleanor Catton
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts.
— Eleanor Catton
Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.
— Eleanor Mondale
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
— Eleanor Clark
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
— Monica Crowley
I've loved Eleanor as long as you've been alive but it's wrong of me to dismiss your feelings for her simply because they're younger than mine.
— Tiffany Reisz
It made sense that Tina was in Eleanor's gym class
because gym was an extension of hell, and Tina was definetly a demon. — Rainbow Rowell
because gym was an extension of hell, and Tina was definetly a demon. — Rainbow Rowell
it's hard to remember that the outside and the inside of people are two very different things.
— Eleanor Moran
I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.
— Eleanor Catton
I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.
— Eleanor Tomlinson
The Internet is not a place. It's a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
— Eleanor Antin
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion,
— Saki
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
— Eleanor Catton
Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.
— Sharon Kay Penman
A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.
— Dana Gould
Worked like a Trojan. That's one thing I'll say for the Chinese: when it comes to pure old-fashioned work, you can't fault them.
— Eleanor Catton
And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
— Eleanor Catton
His two great loves were hard work and hard work's reward - whiskey, when he could get it, and gin when he could not.
— Eleanor Catton
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying.
— Rainbow Rowell
Lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
It's a fearful thing to love what death can touch.
— Eleanor Morse
She's my girlfriend. - Park ( Eleanor and Park )
— Rainbow Rowell
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
— Eleanor Clift
August is a teacher's longest Sunday -Weird Sisters
— Eleanor Brown
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data
— Eleanor Duckworth
The world does not wish to be saved. It carries us a short distance and drops us when it's done with us.
— Eleanor Morse
I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.
— Eleanor Mondale
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
— Eleanor Catton
There are no have-to's, just choices
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.
— Eleanor Brown
It's good to live in the past. It's sexier here
— Tiffany Reisz
Her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.
Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. — Rainbow Rowell
Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. — Rainbow Rowell
Stop thinking you're doing it all wrong. Your path doesn't look like anybody else's because it can't, it shouldn't, and it won't.
— Eleanor Brownn
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
— Eleanor Catton
Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
— Rainbow Rowell
It was love at first sight. It was 'Oh my God he's so cute at first sight'. - Eleanor ( Eleanor and Park )
— Rainbow Rowell
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
Lady Eleanor sat at the window seat of her chambers, gently stroking her son's head in her lap.
— Jeff Wheeler
Rome is everybody's memory ...
— Eleanor Clark