Eklectic Quotes & Sayings

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.) — Henry R. Luce

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. — Herbert V. Prochnow

If you want to attract, create, and sustain extraordinary levels of success and income, you must first figure out how to become the person that is capable of easily and consistently attracting, creating, and sustaining the extraordinary levels of success and income that you desire. — Hal Elrod

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating. — Katarina Witt

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat. — Neal Boortz

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming — Emma Thompson

Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex. — Dossie Easton

The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure. — Jorge Luis Borges

How did it all end?'
'Oh, I got away with my life. Still, what's life?'
'Life's all right. — P.G. Wodehouse

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work. — John Andreas Widtsoe

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Thinking of you where ever you are-
We pray for our sorrows to end
and hope that our hearts will blend
now I will step forward to realize this wish-
And who knows
starting a new journey may not be so hard
or maybe it's already begun-
There are many worlds
but they share the same sky
one sky one destiny- — Shiro Amano

Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA. — David Rockefeller

It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take. — Craig D. Lounsbrough