Ellanora Thompson Quotes & Sayings

I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun. — Morgan Matson

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless. — Willie Smits

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth. — Zig Ziglar

I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life. — Kina Grannis

I'm obsessed with my parents. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income. — John Medina

According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide.
For the teleologist an organism exists because it was made for the conditions in which it is found; for the Darwinian an organism exists because, out of many of its kind, it is the only one which has been able to persist in the conditions in which it is found.
Teleology implies that the organs of every organism are perfect and cannot be improved; the Darwinian theory simply affirms that they work well enough to enable the organism to hold its own against such competitors as it has met with, but admits the possibility of indefinite improvement. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official. — Margaret Atwood

Christians best thrive as a minority, a counterculture. Historically, when they reach a majority they too have yielded to the temptations of power in ways that are clearly anti-gospel. Charlemagne ordered a death penalty for all Saxons who would not convert, and in 1492 Spain decreed that all Jews convert to Christianity or be expelled. British Protestants in Ireland once imposed a stiff fine on anyone who did not attend church and deputies forcibly dragged Catholics into Protestant churches. Priests in the American West sometimes chained Indians to church pews to enforce church attendance. After many such episodes in Christendom it became clear that religion allied too closely to the state leads to the abuse of power. Much of the current hostility against Christians evokes the memory of such examples. The blending of church and state may work for a time but it inevitably provokes a backlash, such as that seen in secular Europe today. — Philip Yancey

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up. — Jane Fonda

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Nor can I imagine anything that would do humanity more good than the advent of a race of Supermen, for them to fight like dragons. If the Superman is better than we, of course we need not fight him; but in that case, why not call him a Saint? But if he is merely stronger (whether physically, mentally, or morally stronger, I do not care a farthing), then he ought to have to reckon with us at least for all the strength we have. If we are weaker than he, that is no reason why we should be weaker than ourselves. If we are not tall enough to touch the giant's knees, that is no reason why we should become shorter by falling on our own. — G.K. Chesterton

I will play Truth or Dare, you sucker, until you can't tell your truth from your dare. -CAROLINE — Alice Clayton

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. — Arthur Conan Doyle