Elias Web Quotes & Sayings

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. — George Michael

You must be the brother. I hope so, I'm wearing his pants. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself. — Haruki Murakami

We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty. — Terry Pratchett

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. — Dolly Parton

THE ACCEPTANCE OF SUFFERING is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death - and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun and deludes itself into believing it has to fight for survival and create and cling to an identity other than the sun. Would the death of this delusion not be incredibly liberating? DO YOU WANT AN EASY DEATH? Would you rather die without pain, without agony? Then die to the past every moment, and let the light of your presence shine away the heavy, time-bound self you thought of as "you. — Eckhart Tolle

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play. — Chamique Holdsclaw

Wow, what's up with her? She looks like she just killed somebody for fun. — Rainbow Rowell