Eljas Erkko Quotes & Sayings

Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object. — Ken Follett

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism. — Holly Robinson Peete

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears. — Moffat Machingura

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I've lost control of it. — Cindy Sherman

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility. — Nita Ambani

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief. — Richard Posner

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings. — Lisa Kudrow

He is a man like any other ... he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate. — John Williams

The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also the elephant and the country of Denmark, beside many other things. Yes, everyday brought its new animal and its new country, its new kings and its new gods, its quota of those tough little figures which seem to have no significance, but are nevertheless endowed with a life and a value of their own, and may be added together or subtracted from one another at will. And finally poetry, which is grater than any country ; poetry with its bright palaces. — Halldor Laxness

Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes. — Marty Rubin

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe. — Sri Aurobindo

The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus' gifts. CHAPTER 2 The days became warmer the first week in April, and on some mornings I went out on the salt at dawn and seined — James Lee Burke