Elizabeth Edwards Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Elizabeth Edwards:

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Elizabeth Edwards

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Elizabeth Edwards

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Elizabeth Edwards

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Elizabeth Edwards

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Elizabeth Edwards

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

Elizabeth Edwards

I want to live.

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Elizabeth Edwards

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

I grew up in a Navy family.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Edwards

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Elizabeth Edwards

My father had gone to Vietnam.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Elizabeth Edwards

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Elizabeth Edwards

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Elizabeth Edwards

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards

I want to reclaim who I am.

Elizabeth Edwards

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Elizabeth Edwards

Almost everybody embraces life.

Elizabeth Edwards

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Elizabeth Edwards

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm a puzzle doer.

Elizabeth Edwards

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Elizabeth Edwards