Elitsac Quotes & Sayings

Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has been extremely effective in accomplishing, is to inculcate guilt in connection with pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure, when accompanied by guilt, becomes a means of perpetuating chronic guilt, and this serves to reinforce one's dependence on God. — George H. Smith

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts. — Mark Cuban

I'm a pleaser. That's my character. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men. — Daniel Defoe

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. — Epictetus

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. — Anthony Trollope

I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks. — Emil Cioran