Elouise Quek Quotes & Sayings

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state. — Adam Ross

You are in a country that comes and goes, where the people have been mistreated but rarely oppose. Borders have changed by rulers from afar, although sometimes closer than neighbourhoods are. Their religion is sacred and the heavens smile down, but the history they keep will lead you to frown... — Sean F. Hogan

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

And the pursuit of fun does not lead to overall contentment. Studies have shown this consistently. — Graeme Simsion

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go. — Marianne Faithfull

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead. — C.J. Redwine

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? — Joyce Carol Oates

The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds. I can't tell you how to do this; I think the answer is different for everyone. What I can tell you is that in today's economy, doing it is a prerequisite for success. — Seth Godin

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. — John McCain

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard. — Niall Williams

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey. — B.B. King

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant
(Isabella) — William Shakespeare