Elistratova Quotes & Sayings

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble. — Laozi

Questions can be more dangerous than swords. — Evangeline Walton

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World ... when you love someone with all your heart, that's when you are transformed."
"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive ... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us ... we continue to change as change is the nature of man. No one is "just this way". That is who they are today - it will not be who they are tomorrow. — Paulo Coelho

Environmentalists generally object to battery-powered devices and for good reason: batteries require mined minerals, employ manufacturing processes that leak toxins into local ecosystems and leave behind an even-worse trail of side effects upon disposal. Though when it comes to the largest mass-produced battery-powered gadget ever created - the electric car - environmentalists cannot jump from their seats fast enough to applaud it. — Ozzie Zehner

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water. — Chris Kuzneski

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week. — Patricia Mauceri

I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. — Jon Ronson

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. — Matthew Arnold