Ellakins Quotes & Sayings

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Speak your mind. No one else will. — Paul McElligott

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. — Katherine Paterson

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. — Friedrich Schiller

With Adrian, every touch . . . every action between us . . . well, it was all enhanced by our love. How did people have sex without that? That was a question I had no interest in exploring. — Richelle Mead

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit ...
Ivan Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye! — Douglas Fairbanks

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! — Lady G

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley — L.M. Montgomery

It's hard to tell
if we close our eyes or if night
opens in us other starred eyes,
if it burrows into the wall of our dream
till some other door opens.
But the dream
is only the flitting costume of one moment,
is spent in one beat
of the darkness,
and falls at our feet, cast off
as the day stirs and sails away with us."
-from "In the Tower — Pablo Neruda

Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me
varied and huge, giving me everything from delight, to knowledge, to access to friends and colleagues, a desirable identity through valued work, escape from pain, and a steady income. Not bad, for something so intangible as making and selling dream-by-number kits. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ? — Aboagye Williamson De-graft

His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes! — Mark Dunn

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect. — Maimonides

You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today. — Rhonda Byrne