Eilimy Quotes & Sayings

By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles ... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? — Frank Laubach

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. — Evelyn Waugh

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. — Henry Rollins

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am. — Randy Houser

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it. — Max Tundra

Except for the occasional great person or hero, or tragedy, death has always been personal, affecting one individual and the handful of people who cared about that dead individual. The rest of society went on, and that had been true as far back as the ancient pyramids and great walls, and remained true, and would doubtless remain so into the far future. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Note: The phrase Son of God had many meanings in Jesus' time, one of which was "a son born without a father," which, by all accounts, Jesus was. Just as the phrase virgin birth could mean simply an unmarried woman giving birth, which, by all accounts, describes Jesus' mother (see Geza Vermes, The Authentic Gospel of Jesus). — Nick Flynn

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. — Agatha Christie

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against. — Diana Vreeland

There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that — Woody Harrelson

You're insane!"
"I won't argue that point. — Ray Bradbury

I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive. — Ellen DeGeneres

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. — Jonah Goldberg