Rebecca Quotes

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

I dreamed of being very attracted to my future husband, and I'm extremely attracted to him. I dreamed of having lots of fun together and being able to be goofy and be accepted, that's all there.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.