Elfriede Prefontaine Quotes & Sayings

She hadn't told Klaus about her plan, because she didn't want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of her room. — Lemony Snicket

I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind. — Cillian Murphy

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. — Barack Obama

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears. — Patrick Roy

So little time and so little to do. — Oscar Levant

It is when we are completely fulfilled and want for nothing more that we are given everything. — Kate McGahan

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown

He who strives for excellence strives for greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. — Alan Cohen

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. — Thomas Merton

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit. — Ten Bears

Do not underestimate yourself! — Sunday Adelaja

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos. — Peter Greenaway