Ellerbrock Norris Quotes & Sayings

A conversation with her is a special pleasure because there are no words that are not preceded by thoughts. — Irin Carmon

Believing in negative thoughts is one of the greatest obstructions to success. — Charles F. Glassman

There is no treasure like the human heart. — Jocelyn Murray

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk

Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud. — Budd Schulberg

Where then is this self, if it is neither in the body nor the soul? And how can one love the body or the soul except for the sake of such qualities, which are not what makes up the self, since they are perishable? Would we love the substance of a person's soul, in the abstract, whatever qualities might be in it? That is not possible, and it would be wrong. Therefore we never love anyone, but only qualities. — Blaise Pascal

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. — Ouida

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. — Sigmund Freud

Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law. The Papists therefore, have foolishly borrowed, this, as well as many other things, from the Jews. Men who are fond of outward pomp may delight in that noise; but the simplicity which God recommends to us by the apostles is far more pleasing to him. Paul allows us to bless God in the public assembly of the saints, only in a known tongue (1 Corinthians 14:16) What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound? — John Calvin