Elegant Elliot Quotes & Sayings

How hard it is for women to keep counsel! — William Shakespeare

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency. — Alan Lomax

And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will fold into the mystic — Van Morrison

No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway. — Debasish Mridha

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true. — Thomas Gilovich

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia. — Thomas Merton

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both. — Ashleigh Brilliant

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true. — J.I. Packer

There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from. — Matisyahu

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. — Kahlil Gibran

Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven. — Thomas Watson

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest. — Deb Caletti