Elicitation Process Quotes & Sayings

About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread 1984: there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The usual distinctions between forgotten details and a vivid general impression mean nothing here, for the book is written out of one passionate breath, each word is bent to a severe discipline of meaning, everything is stripped to the bareness of terror.
Kafka's The Trial is also a book of terror, but it is a paradigm and to some extent a puzzle, so that one may lose oneself in the rhythm of the paradigm and play with the parts of the puzzle. Kafka's novel persuades us that life is inescapably hazardous and problematic, but the very 'universality' of this idea helps soften its impact: to apprehend the terrible on the plane of metaphysics is to lend it an almost soothing aura. — Irving Howe

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again. — Pamela Morris

The refrain repeated through this books is that everything we need, we already possess in Christ. This means that the what-if has been taken out of the equation. We can take absurd risks, push harder, go further, and leave it all on the field without fear
and have fun doing so. We can give with reckless abandon, because we no longer need to ensure a return of success, love, meaning, validation, and approval. We can invest freely and forcefully, because we've been freely and forcefully invested in. (188) — Tullian Tchividjian

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. — Gabriela Sabatini

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents. — John Linder

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it? — Tucker Carlson

The word "marriage" lingered in Guy's ears, too. It was a solemn word to him. It had the primordial solemnity of holy, love, sin. It was Miriam's round terra cotta-coloured mouth saying, "Why should I put myself out for you?" and it was Anne's eyes as she pushed her hair back and looked up at him on the lawn of her house where she planted crocuses. It was Miriam turning from the tall thin window in the room in Chicago, lifting her freckled, shield-shaped face directly up to his as she always did before she told a lie, and Steve's long dark head, insolently smiling. — Patricia Highsmith

It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord. — Louie Giglio

Make a note that one should never run the applications as a root user. This is a huge security flaw in itself as the application crashes, which can harm the OS itself. — Shalabh Aggarwal

I'm a giant Beatles fan. — Taylor Momsen

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule. — Gerry Geek

[T]he kingdom of God ... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated. — B. H. Roberts

Friends with benefits, my ass. He's mine. — J.M. Madden

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school. — Stephen Sprouse

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. — Phyllis Schlafly