Elly Quotes & Sayings

Affairs between fire and frost rarely end well. — Elly Blake

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. — Mark Twain

You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken. — Elly Blake

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women? — Margaret Atwood

I can be nothing worse and nothing better than who I am...Elly. — Elly Helcl

If we all had names to suit us, you'd be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods."I prickled at his scathing tone. "And you'd be Miserable Blockhead.""Is that the best you can do?""Give me time. I'm half frozen." "Perhaps your name should be Icy Tyrant. No, wait. Frigid Despot. — Elly Blake

Yes, peasants," he repeated slowly. "The lowliest of the low among humans." Then he enunciated, "Exceedingly backward and vulgar hillbillies."
"Been called worse, mister." At his raised brows, she exhaled impatiently. "Bootlegger, moonshiner, Elly May Clampett, mountain mama, redneck, backwoods Bessie, hick, trailer trash, yokel, and, more recently, death-row con."
"No references to mining? I'm disappointed. — Kresley Cole

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. — Albert Einstein

How handsome he must have been before he was burned. Heat flared over my skin. How handsome he was now. — Elly Blake

In a Chicago cafe the other night, an elderly man passed a table.
"There goes George," observed an onlooker. "When he was young, he was a handsome guy and had many companies. Left a wife and two kids to starve, and ran off with another woman. And now look at him. Old, broke and very sad."
"That's the way-it-goes," nodded Elly Kleinman. "Time wounds all heels. — Groucho Marx

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. — Agatha Christie

It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his wagon, and his waiting horses. She had no conception of what was being asked of her, but she knew that there could be no viable alternative. She dashed inside the orphanage and grabbed the few things that belonged to her. — James A. Michener

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You are strong. You are a wonderful, strong human being. — Elly Griffiths

Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from one to ten? Good Lord no, my sweet Elly, I do not! I would have been cast out from this life years ago with my tatty history. Do I believe in a mystery; the unexplained phenomenon that is life itself? The greater something that illuminates inconsequence in our lives; that gives us something to strive for as well as the humility to brush ourselves down and start all over again? Then yes, I do. It is the source of art, of beauty, of love, and proffers the ultimate goodness to mankind. That to me is God. That to me is life. That is what I believe in. — Sarah Winman

I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. — E.B. White

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. — Seth Godin

Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse. — Elly Griffiths

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here. — Sarah Winman

We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world. — Maya Angelou

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. — Charlotte Bronte

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! — Dr. Seuss

If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom. — Sarah Winman

you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?"
She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk."
He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries? — Jayne Castle

Don't be a fool," Vera Claythorne urged herself. "It's all right. Elly Kleinman and others are downstairs. All four of them. There's no one in the room. There can't be. You're imagining things, my girl. — Agatha Christie

I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between. — Elly Varrenti

We'll have to see if CSI picked up anything from the scene,' says Nelson. 'Are they finished?' 'Yes,' says Tanya. 'Shall I liaise with them?' Tanya loves liaising, it sounds so much more important than keeping in touch. 'If — Elly Griffiths

You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it. — Elly Griffiths

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door. — Donna Douglas

Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation. An American friend, whose name is Elly Kleinman, said to me "Nothing is born, nothing dies." Although he did not practice as a Buddhist but as a company owner, he found the same truth the Buddha discovered. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I ran to him, torn by conflicting urges. I wanted to hurt him. I wanted to make sure he was unhurt. I wanted to leave him in the dirt and run away. I wanted him to stop me from leaving. — Elly Blake

But history could be twisted and warped to suit the person telling it. — Elly Blake

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home. — Marianne Williamson

You wanted to talk to me about SHCH.' Sacred Heart Children's Home, Nelson works out silently. He hates acronyms. Whitcliffe, of course, loves them. — Elly Griffiths

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. — Elly Griffiths

Stillness was a kind of violence in the hands of people who played at handing out pain. — Elly Blake

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. — T. S. Eliot

Sometimes,' says Bob, trying to eat a falafel and balance his glass at the same time. — Elly Griffiths

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. — Elly Roselle

How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength! — Jaclyn Dolamore

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe — William Shakespeare

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. — Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte

She's unmarried but, as she confided early on to Judy, 'not short of offers'. Nelson often thinks that Jo is not nearly as attractive as she thinks she is but, as with all these things, her insane self-belief rubs off on others, and after a week King's Lynn police were treating her as if she were Helen of Troy. Her technique is divide and rule. — Elly Griffiths

It was like looking into a dream. An imagination of what seduction in its purest form would look like. This woman was so intense, so deep and utterly sensual, the music flowed right out of her onto the cello and the process moved her so much, she couldn't contain it. It was passion and it pulled him in. — Elly Kamari

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. — Sylvia Plath

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born. — Clayborne Carson

It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy. — Jennae Noelle

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary. — Albert Einstein

The sunshine is so healthful," the lady said. "Isn't it wonderful how the good God has arranged nature for our benefit. In summer we can come to the sea for a cool swim, in spring we can enjoy the fresh green grass and flowers, in autumn the rain makes music for us, and in winter He sends the snow. He has made all things in wisdom. — Elly Economou

Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality. — Elly Griffiths

James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness, the report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo

She chose power."
"I am power. — Elly Blake

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. — Maya Angelou

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle.

Did Brother Thistle train you in the most effective methods of communicating with me?"
His head lifted and his lips curved. "He may have given me some advice."
"And you took it?" My brows rose.
"I'm experimenting with it. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to my tried and true method."
"By which you mean threats and orders."
His smile widened. — Elly Blake

Grey's OK on a man,' says Mary-Anne. 'Silver fox and all that.' Ruth notices that Frank doesn't seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn't a female equivalent to 'silver fox'. 'Grey-haired old bat' doesn't cover it somehow. — Elly Griffiths

Everything changes, nothing perishes, — Elly Griffiths

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. — Marianne Williamson

She suppresses the ignoble thought that it's hard to see what two complex, intelligent men can see in Michelle. She must have hidden depths, that's all. Ruth sometimes suspects that she, herself, has hidden shallows. — Elly Griffiths

When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute. — Elly Griffiths

As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to call in on you like this.'

'That's OK.'

'Are you going to get yourself a drink? This coffee's really very good. It's truly terrible, the stuff they serve at the police station.'

'I know.' Ruth has had her own experience of Nelson's coffee. She wonders if it's a way of torturing suspects until they confess. In contrast, the coffee at the university is excellent. Ruth gets herself an espresso. She thinks that she is going to need the energy. She has a feeling that, like the visit from Nelson all those years ago, this conversation is going to complicate her life. — Elly Griffiths

God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him. — John Piper

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public. — Oscar Wilde

To be loved means to be recognized as existing. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! — Dr. Seuss

Face them all like a warrior, whether you are one or not. — Elly Blake

Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed and he looks as if he hasn't slept. He puts his hat on the floor and accepts a cup of coffee. 'I'm giving up coffee for Lent,' he says. 'Better make the most of it.'

'This stuff's enough to make you give up coffee for life,' says Nelson. 'I should know. I've drunk about a gallon of it.'

Father Hennessey smiles and drinks his coffee in silence for a few minutes. — Elly Griffiths

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Apple Inc.

I wasn't being noble. There was nothing noble about a thirst for revenge. It was about getting what I wanted, a chance to kill the king. And no one else would have to suffer because of me. — Elly Blake

Do you believe in God, Arthur?" I said, eating the last piece of sponge.
"Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from one to ten? Good Lord no, my sweet Elly, I do not! — Sarah Winman

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. — Marilynne Robinson

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams

There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows. — Elly Griffiths

talking into her phone. — Elly Griffiths

My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land. — C.J. Cherryh

I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong. — Elly Blake

Major Karl von Kronig,"' he reads. '"Oberstleutnant Stefan Fenstermacher, Obergefreiter Lutz Gerber, Gefreiter Manfred Hahn, Gefreiter Reiner Brauer, Panzerfunker Gerhard Meister . . ." Bloody hell. No wonder they didn't win the war with names like that. Take them a year and a half to do the roll call. What the hell's "panzerfunker" when it's at home? — Elly Griffiths

I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature kleinman person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy? — M. J. O'Shea

I know you've all got it in for me," says Bob. "You fitted me up for one crime, why not pin every child murder in the last twenty years on me?" His voice rises hysterically.
"That seems rather an extreme reaction," says Tim. "I just asked what you were doing yesterday afternoon. — Elly Griffiths

You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up model. — Elly Griffiths

Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore. — LaVyrle Spencer

You speak as if I'm as heavy as an ox," I said. "Last week I was a bundle of sticks.""You're still too thin.""Perhaps if I gain some weight, you won't call me a stick anymore.""You may hope to one day be a branch."I glanced at him sharply, unable to repress a little flutter of delight that he was bothering to joke with me."A log, even," I suggested."Doubtful," he said wryly. — Elly Blake

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away — Emily Bronte

Over the years, I bought a trailer -- and then a cargo bike -- and then a trailer for the cargo bike -- and that's when things got really out of hand. I've moved a full size bed and frame (with a friend riding on top of the bed), a drafting table, a sleeper sofa, my dog, another bicycle and its rider, a load of twelve foot long 2x4s, and half a garden's worth of plants. — Elly Blue

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past. — Elly Griffiths

Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather) — Paul Kleinman

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx