Elizabeth Hewer Quotes & Sayings

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. — Anthony Hopkins

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. — Amelia Earhart

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely? — Napoleon Hill

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie

People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most? — Sarah Skilton

In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication. — James Wasserman

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds. — George Hickenlooper

We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty — Cassandra Clare

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14. — Glenn Ford

Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not so - for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? — William Shakespeare

It is foolish to which for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves, or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day, all very judicious and proper, no doubt; but such assertions supported by actual experience? — Anne Bronte

His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me ... the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are."
-Grant Morgan — Lisa Kleypas

It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me. — Elaine Stritch

Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry. — Virginia Woolf