Elenas Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. — George Stigler

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world. — John Green

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head. — Ryan Tedder

Calm seas never made a good sailor — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved. — Laozi

i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving

-balance — Rupi Kaur

The angel destroyed me! He seduced me with a pure voice, spoke kind words, and stroked my hair to lower my guard, to make me trust him, to trick me! He sullied my body, my voice, my heart; remade me as a terrifying monster; turned me into his companion! The angel was a disfigured phantom wearing a mask! — Mizuki Nomura

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet

He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against being vain or boastful or arrogant in consequence of it. — Lao-Tzu

I will learn, the opportunity will come. — Abraham Lincoln

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families. — John Adams

Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah ... know that it is the remembrance of Allah alone that brings rest to the hearts.
(The Qur'an-surah ar-R'ad;28) — Anonymous

I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can. — Anthony Bourdain

I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better. — Bernie Sanders

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? — Barbra Streisand