Elodie Bouchez Quotes & Sayings

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then. — Marilyn Hacker

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. — Giacomo Leopardi

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley

If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace. — Lori Goldstein

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't. — Carol K. Carr

Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:
'He ordered the priests of the different Christian sects, and their supporters to be admitted to the palace, and politely expressed his wish that, their quarrels being over, each might follow his own beliefs without hindrance or fear. He thought that freedom to argue their beliefs would simply deepen their differences, so that he would never be faced by a united common people. He found from experience that no wild beasts are as hostile to men, as Christians are to each other.' — Paul Johnson

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all. — Patricia Finney

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life. — Carol Gilligan

Anxiety is just groundless and pointless. It occurs only as a hangover of bad habits established when we were trusting things - like human approval and wealth - that were certain to let us down. Now our strategy should be one of resolute rejection of worry, while we concentrate on the future in hope and with prayer and on the past with thanksgiving. — Dallas Willard

O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Faith is a strong fortress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine. — Rob Thurman

I do things on a whim. — Ruth Wilson

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. — John Gray