Elizabeth Edwards Quotes - Page 2

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?

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

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

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

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

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.

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

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

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

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.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.