Letitia Everett Quotes

Let me guess. You think we're going to live happily ever after, like some stupid fairy tale?"
"Why not?" His stare dared me to laugh or, worse, to argue.
"Because the whole thing is ridiculous," I said. I despised the bitterness in my own voice. I sounded so damaged. Good. If he thought I was his soul mate for some mysterious reason he wouldn't let on, let him see the worst of me.
"It's not ridiculous to me. Perhaps that's the difference between predators and prey, love. I'll never stop hunting. But I expect that one day, you'll stop running."
"Because I want to die?"
"Because you want to live. ~ Delilah S. Dawson

In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven. ~ Edward Everett Hale

You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded. ~ Edward Everett Hale

Marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. ~ C. Everett Koop

Takes one motherfucker to know another. ~ Ronald Everett Capps

If you are capable of hearing, listen. ~ Ronald Everett Capps

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. ~ Rupert Everett

I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit ~ Ann Everett

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here! ~ Everett Dirksen

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. ~ Rupert Everett

One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time. ~ Rupert Everett

When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower. ~ Edward Everett

Brandt Everett was certifiably crazy so far as Shawn was concerned, and to keep him under control they had to find something the man liked more than blowing shit up. ~ Abigail Roux

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it. ~ Tom Everett Scott

One of the reactions to Jesus was the confession, first voiced by the leader of the Twelve, Peter, that "You are the Messiah" (Mark 8:29), the eagerly awaited "anointed of the Lord" who would bring deliverance to the Jewish people. It was a confession welcomed by many, doubted by others, and feared by still others in positions of power. Jesus' popularity provoked jealousy and opposition from some Pharisees and a range of sentiments from uneasiness to profound disturbance among the political leaders. ~ Everett Ferguson

It's about...something that remains out of sight ~ Ronald Everett Capps

Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed. ~ Mark Oliver Everett

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. ~ Alan Cumming

I think marriage is ghastly. ~ Rupert Everett

You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self. Write or sing or dance or paint with your whole being, without guardedness or cynicism and without trying to second-guess an audience. ~ Felicity Everett

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond. ~ Rupert Everett

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. ~ Edward Everett Hale

Letitia gets extremely pissed off when we're late with reports. It's you she coddles, as you're the baby."

Kyle scowls at his elder brother. "She doesn't coddle."
"She does. She pinches your cheeks," Megan says with her mouth full of pastry.

"That's abuse," Kyle counters. "I've told her to stop. ~ Liz De Jager

Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I don't trust people who don't use profanity. ~ Mark Oliver Everett

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for. ~ Mik Everett

...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts... ~ Ronald Everett Capps

Mind, what art thou? Dost thou not
Hold the vast earth for thy lot?
In thy toil, how glorious.
What dost thou achieve for us,
Over all victorious!
Godlike thou dost seem.
But they perishing still lurks
In thy most immortal works;
Thou dost build thy home on sand,
And the palace-girdled stream
Fadeth like a dream.
Thy great victories only show
All is nothingness below. ~ Letitia E. Landon

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career. ~ Rupert Everett

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations. ~ Mark Oliver Everett

Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away. ~ Letitia Baldrige