Elltong Quotes & Sayings

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed? — Marya Mannes

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is. — Jesus Zamora Bonilla

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative. — Brian Tracy

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I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. — Grant Bowler

Natural beauty is always tiresome. It lacks that careless touch of artifice that is the hallmark of true originality. There is nothing so overdone and vulgar as unspoilt simplicity. — Emily Croy Barker

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again. — J.W. Lord

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared. — Eula Biss

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders. — Simon Sinek

Poor black families were "immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on," wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did little to lift families out of poverty, but it was enough to keep them afloat. But large-scale social transformations - the crack epidemic, the rise of the black middle class, and the prison boom among them - had frayed the family safety net in poor communities. So had state policies like Aid to Families with Dependent Children that sought to limit "kin dependence" by giving mothers who lived alone or with unrelated roommates a larger stipend than those who lived with relatives. — Matthew Desmond

The Emperor said, "My name is Krataa, and this" - he gestured at Vader - "is Irluuk. — Paul S. Kemp

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making. — B.C. Forbes