Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

... 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.

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

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

We're all going to die.

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.

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.

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

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

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

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

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

The military is already sexually integrated.

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

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

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

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.

I have a husband who adores 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.

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

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

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.

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.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

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

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

Maybe we all change over time.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

I hope I have important things to say.

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

I want to reclaim who I am.

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

I come out of real life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

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

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.