Eleanor Shreiber Quotes

It's good to live in the past. It's sexier here ~ Tiffany Reisz

Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet. ~ Tiffany Reisz

But Lauderback was not the kind of man for whom a sartorial imperfection could lessen the impact of his bearing - in fact, the very opposite was true: the damp suit only made the man look finer. ~ Eleanor Catton

How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours. ~ Eleanor Brown

We need our radicals. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ~ Eleanor Robson Belmont

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!' ~ Eleanor Catton

We learned that you can only feel one thing at one time," says Isolde. "You can feel excitement or you can feel fear but you can never feel both. We learned why beauty is so important: beauty is important because you can't really defile something that is already ugly, and to defile is the ultimate goal of the sexual impulse. We learned that you can always say no. ~ Eleanor Catton

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored. ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook

For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance; Moody saw now that he could no more have ~ Eleanor Catton

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women. ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook

I foresee a miracle occurring in the future."
"Which is?"
"You," Kingsley said as the team gathered on the sideline. "Being humbled."
"And what makes you say that?" Søren asked, sounding both imperious and sceptical.
Kingsley only smiled on and said three words.
"I met Eleanor. ~ Tiffany Reisz

To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. ~ Anthony Trollope

He ceased to be able to distinguish between personal preference and moral imperative, and he ceased to accept that such a distinction was possible. ~ Eleanor Catton

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

Some people won't love you, no matter what you do. Some people won't STOP loving you, no matter what you do. Go where the love is.
©2011 Eleanor Brownn ~ Eleanor Brownn

Learning is Messy. ~ Eleanor Duckworth

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor fixated on all the small luxuries strewn and tucked around the house. Packs of cigarettes, newspapers, magazines ... Brand-name cereal and quilted toilet paper. His refrigerator was full of things you tossed into the cart without thinking about it just because they sounded good. ~ Rainbow Rowell

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them. ~ Eleanor Farjeon

In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings and noblemen married for political advantage, and women rarely had any say in how they or their wealth were to be disposed in marriage. Kings would sell off heiresses and rich widows to the highest bidder, for political or territorial advantage, and those who resisted were heavily fined.

Young girls of good birth were strictly reared, often in convents, and married off at fourteen or even earlier to suit their parents' or overlord's purposes. The betrothal of infants was not uncommon, despite the church's disapproval. It was a father's duty to bestow his daughters in marriage; if he was dead, his overlord or the King himself would act for him. Personal choice was rarely and issue.

Upon marriage, a girl's property and rights became invested in her husband, to whom she owed absolute obedience. Every husband had the right to enforce this duty in whichever way he thought fit--as Eleanor was to find out to her cost. Wife-beating was common, although the Church did at this time attempt to restrict the length of the rod that a husband might use. ~ Alison Weir

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French. ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual. ~ Eleanor Mondale

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. ~ Eleanor Dark

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one from the beginning of time has had security. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn. ~ Eleanor Brown

Within the sphere of English fiction Heathcliff stands alone. Therefore, if we do not understand him, then it is highly probable we were never intended to do so, so that we should try to realize and accept the fact that there may be just one or two things yet left in heaven and earth not dreamt of by our philosophy. ~ Eleanor Mcnees

Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests. ~ Eleanor Henderson

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done - a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem. ~ Eleanor Catton

It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers. ~ Eleanor Prescott

Walter Moody was much experienced in the art of confidences. He knew that by confessing, one earned the subtle right to become confessor to the other, in his turn. A secret deserves a secret, and a tale deserves a tale; the gentle expectation of a response in kind was a pressure he knew how to apply. ~ Eleanor Catton

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The first Sunday after Valentine's Day is "Don't Beat Yourself Up Day." Have fun and be kinder to yourself. #DontBeatYourselfUpDay ~ Eleanor Brownn

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole. ~ Eleanor Mondale

I'm ending this.'
'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'
'You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her.
'You're worth it. ~ Rainbow Rowell

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

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, We'll take it. ~ Eleanor Brown

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing. ~ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her. ~ William A. Rusher