Ellickson Quotes & Sayings

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — G.K. Chesterton

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation. — Anne McCaffrey

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there. — J. J. Watt

A policing of sex: that is, not the rigor of a taboo, but the necessity of regulating sex through useful and public discourses. A few examples will suffice. One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem: population as wealth, population as manpower or labor capacity, population balanced between its own growth and the resources it commanded. Governments perceived that they were not dealing simply with subjects, or even with a "people," but with a "population," with its specific phenomena and its peculiar variables: birth and death rates, life expectancy, fertility, state of health, frequency of illnesses, patterns of diet and habitation. — Michel Foucault

Any time you need to use the term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal in order to make your point, you've got trouble. — Paul Tough

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it. ... The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise. — Atul Gawande

He clung to her for his very soul. Until at last his pulse slowed to match hers. — Anne Osterlund

They say live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes — James Frey

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West. — Sir John Woodroffe

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul. — Plato

If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence. — MC Hammer