Amberlie Elcriss Quotes & Sayings

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin

Principles without programs are platitudes. — George Bernard Shaw

The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks ... It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights. — Maria Semple

He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so. — Francis De Sales

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever. — Patricia MacLachlan

One has periods of ghastliness. And then long periods of sort of quiet and love. — Philip Roth

They never used three words where one would do. — Debora Geary

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff." — Ben Affleck

When Harlem residents Michael McMichael and Anthony Odom drove down 161st Street in a new-looking Range Rover, police immediately profiled the car as being bought with illegal income. But when Stevie Cohen claimed to be 400 percent more efficient than the entire investing world fifteen years running, talked publicly about his billion-bucks-a-year income, and bought a 6,000-square-foot, Zamboni-treated skating rink for his mansion just a few years after opening his own business, nobody blinked until decades had passed and multiple companies had been destroyed. — Matt Taibbi

But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands - to depart from his ribcage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future. — Will Self

First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation. — T.F. Hodge