Lizzie Borden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
-- Lizzie Borden

#Believe #Sleep #Thinking
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
-- Lizzie Borden

#Summer #Winter #Naps
I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
-- Lizzie Borden

#Sister #Mother #Care
Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.
-- Lizzie Borden

#Hurt #Father #Thinking
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
-- Lizzie Borden

#Morning #Aprons #Occasions

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Lizzie Borden famous quotes

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