Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Edwards - Page 2

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

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.

I love my books.

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

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

I have a husband who adores me.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

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

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

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

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

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

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.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

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.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

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

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

I loved campaigning.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.