Eckelmann Quotes & Sayings

Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763. — Samuel Johnson

My life had been like a painter who climbs up a road overhanging a lake that is hidden from view by a screen of rocks and trees. Through a gap he glimpses it, he has it all there in front of him, he takes up his brushes. — Marcel Proust

In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China. — Rebecca MacKinnon

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them. — Rahima Baldwin Dancy

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives. — Meg Waite Clayton

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it. — Stephanie Nielson

What did you hear? I whisper. He turns around and whispers back. Two people whispering. — Susan Ee

If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow. — Ellen Hopkins

My grandmother used to say we were born of a great fire. I wish I knew what she meant by that. — Yaa Gyasi

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. — Will Rogers

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. — Bill Watterson

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra — Myles Munroe