Elhanan Matos Quotes & Sayings

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. — Paulo Coelho

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader. — Jim Trelease

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! — Louise Jameson

we are not talking to one another about what changes we're planning or implementing. This is not acceptable. — Gene Kim

Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity. — Zaman Ali

It doesn't matter. I love you. That's it. That's all. I hope to hell it's enough. — Maya Banks

Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry ... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world ... — Erich Fromm

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our
sense of balance and perspective. — Billy Graham

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today ... — Bill Burr

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity. — Louis MacNeice

He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget. — Faraaz Kazi

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity itself! — Arnold Bennett

President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships. — John O. Brennan

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can. — Norman Schwarzkopf

By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances. — Wayne W. Dyer