Elinore Pruitt Quotes & Sayings

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity. — Henry Ward Beecher

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease. — Daniel Akaka

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial. — J. C. Chandor

Social media is not new. It has been around for centuries. Today, blogs are the new pamphlets. Microblogs and online social networks are the new coffee houses. Media-sharing sites are the new commonplace books. They are all shared, social platforms that enable ideas to travel from one person to another, rippling through networks of people connected by social bonds, rather than having to squeeze through the privileged bottleneck of broadcast media. The rebirth of social media in the Internet age represents a profound shift - and a return, in many respects, to the way things used to be. — Tom Standage

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively. — Pete Rose

The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
- — Michaelangelo

My brother Calvin is very sweet. God had to give him to us because he squealed so much he sturbed the angels. We are not angels so he dont sturb us. — Elinore Pruitt Stewart

You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? — Kahlil Gibran

You know what it's like to ride fire in battle," said Roston. "You've watched good men fall around you for causes they don't believe in. You know, Captain, as I do, that many of the things we're ordered to do are done solely to fulfill the self-satisfying agendas or stroke the egos of men who've never risked blood on a battlefield. — Robin Parrish

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization, — Jiang Zemin

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me. — Reeve Carney

Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose. — Cinda Williams Chima

Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate
with the best teachers
the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accompany us everywhere. Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan