Louise Erdrich Famous Quotes
"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."
"In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace."
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich Quotations
"Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures."
Henry Anatole Grunwald
It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.
Scandinavian Proverb
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)
Lyndon B Johnson
"I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure."
Marquis de Sade
"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
Thomas Wolfe
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
Joan Borysenko
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T S Eliot