Elea Quotes & Sayings

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough. — Lulu

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid. — Roz Chast

But what has been said once can always be repeated. — Zeno Of Elea

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. — Al Gore

Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example. — Sarah Schulman

Beauty is the flower of chastity. — Zeno Of Elea

My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One — Zeno Of Elea

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back. — Abraham Lincoln

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives. — Jamie Oliver

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word ... nothing actually happens. — Richard Curtis

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let Your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard Your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:6-7 — Shelley Hitz

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. — Zeno Of Elea

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. — Zeno Of Elea

Given enough coffee I could rule the world — Terry Pratchett

Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality — Miguel Syjuco

I thought about the boy who made my chest hurt, the one who'd promised forever. It — Jennifer L. Armentrout

If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like — Zeno Of Citium

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. — Tori Amos

Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused. — Shiv Khera

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof. — Zeno Of Elea

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. — Frank Bartleman