Eless Quotes & Sayings

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation, said Dumbledore. — J.K. Rowling

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens. — John Darnielle

Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot be so easily grasped and conveyed as we are generally led to believe; most events are unconveyable and come to pass in a space that no word has ever penetrated; more unconveyable than all else are art-works, whose mysterious existences, whose lives run alongside ours, which perishes, whereas theirs endure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I was supposed to free him. I was supposed to save him. I was supposed to save everyone. — Nely Cab

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ... — Gertrude Stein

Emma: It's obvious he likes you. So painfully obvious - and what does he do about it? Nothing. — Cecilia Gray

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Some former POWs became almost feral with rage. For many men, seeing an Asian person or overhearing a snippet of Japanese left them shaking, weeping, enraged, or lost in flashbacks. One former POW, normally gentle and quiet, spat at every Asian person he saw. At Letterman General Hospital just after the war, four former POWs tried to attack a staffer who was of Japanese ancestry, not knowing that he was an American veteran. Troubled former POWs found nowhere to turn. — Laura Hillenbrand

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage. — Jesse Helms

His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair. — Colleen Hoover

Ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky. — Markus Zusak

I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith. — T.I.