Nancy Levin Quotes

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty. ~ Nancy Levin

Our outer world reflects our inner commitments. If we want to know what we are really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives. We are, whether we are aware of it or not, always creating exactly what we are most committed to. ~ Nancy Levin

Accepting our greatness means no longer playing small. It often starts with baby steps. But eventually it means making major changes - in our lives, jobs, relationships, and dreams.

If I had believed in my own self-worth, I would never have been willing to make the financial moves I made in the past.

If I'd known my value, I couldn't have spent so many years ignoring the whispering - and sometimes screaming - voice that told me to leave my marriage. For a long time, that truth was just too scary and painful for me to face. Talk about keeping my head in the sand!

But how many years did I waste, postponing what has proven to be a much better life - simply because I went into hiding and didn't see that I was worthy of something better? ~ Nancy Levin

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible. ~ Nancy Levin

When something is "off" in your life, you know it. And it takes an incredible amount of energy to continue the denial - energy that could be used toward letting go of the old and inviting in the new. That ~ Nancy Levin

...unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself. ~ Doreen Virtue

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented. ~ Nancy Pelosi

Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk. ~ Ira Levin

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. ~ Nancy Gibbs

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches. ~ Nancy Sinatra

If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages. ~ Nancy Pearl

Mrs. Faulkner had sidled up to me and said Good day, Mrs. Elliot?
I just looked at her, and I saw in her eyes that she was wanting some kind of approval for her boy because of his career ahead, and she suddenly just looked like an old lady, not fancy and rich and frightening. An old lady whose son admired my husband, and who herself would be as helpless in the Territories as a newborn calf and not nearly as useful. Good day, I said back. It is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in a glass. ~ Nancy E. Turner

The Donald Fraser of The Story Girl was Donald Montgomery, and Neil Campbell was David Murray, of Bedeque. The only embroidery I permitted myself in the telling of the tale was to give Donald a horse and cutter. In reality, what he had was a half-broken steer, hitched to a rude, old wood-sled, and it was with this romantic equipage that he hied him over to Richmond Bay to propose to Nancy! ~ L.M. Montgomery

Ha! Don't you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That's half the fun."

She angled his head ever so slowly to the right. "What's the other half?" Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.

"Rewriting," he said. "You know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it's utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit."

"Relax. I've got you," she said, rotating his head gently to the right. "I guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it."

"We foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen. ~ Nancy Herkness

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. ~ Kathleen Norris

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back. ~ Nancy Farmer

I need you, Charlotte, I need you like air, like light. Without you there's only darkness. There's emptiness. Tell me what you want me to do. I'd wait forever for you. Just don't tell me you don't want me back. ~ Nancy Gideon

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses. ~ Nancy Reagan

If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives - personal and patriotic - to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time, they compete for history's blessing. ~ Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

All we are is who we surround ourselves with and let into our hearts. ~ Nancy S. Thompson

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice.
I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd? ~ Nancy Mitford

Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Hollering at the top of his voice, a little boy walks by a cranky old man. "Boy, why are you a hollering as I walk by?" The little boy replies, "Old man, why are you walking by when I am a hollering. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Keep in mind that it is not enough that we should just read the Word. The object is that the words that are printed on the page would become indelibly written on our hearts. God never intended that we should merely get onto His Word-His intent is that the Word should get into us. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ... ~ Sarah Waters

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian? ~ Richard Levin

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. ~ Carl Levin

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor. ~ Carl Levin

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. ~ Nancy Wynne Newhall

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it. ~ Nancy E. Turner

(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever ~ Nancy Woodruff

The people who say dreams never come true, must have been asleep when opportunity knocked ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ... ~ Nancy Mitford

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. ~ Nancy Holder

But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery"; ~ Ronald Reagan

I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around. ~ Nancy Pelosi

If anyone was capable of understanding how someone else felt, it was Nancy. There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us. She had that rare ability of being able to stand in someone else's shoes and get inside their skin. ~ Renée Knight

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering. ~ Nancy Astor

As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape ... A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each step is a thought. You can't escape yourself. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. ~ Fran Lebowitz