Edna Robinson Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested. — Edna Robinson

Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment. — Edna Robinson

If you search diligently enough, you're likely to find a character with a particular necessary flaw. — Edna Robinson

People can only tell the truth as they see it. — Edna Robinson

No matter what the clocks and calendars say . . . The years between forty and fifty seem to take one. From thirty to forty takes two; twenty to thirty, three. From nine to nineteen takes twenty. — Edna Robinson

The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting. — Edna Robinson

Success, as we categorize it, is a simple and pitiable thing. It's only a matter of degree of wanting, and accident. Wanting plays the major role in everybody's life--accident all the others. The only condition any of us can be sure of in this universe is wanting. How tepid or burning hot the want is depends on accident. But since accident isn't really as accidental as we'd like to think--accident is the great fooler and comforter of mankind--we become 'successful' exactly to the degree we want. — Edna Robinson