Elvarb Quotes & Sayings

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. — Donald E. Westlake

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them. — George Bernard Shaw

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives. — Martin Luther

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I feel naked without jewelry. — Olivia Thirlby

While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity. — Kate M. Colby

I believe that he's a boring fighter. — Nonito Donaire

I won't say that you're pretty because that dog already did. And I won't say you're funny because you have had me laughing since I met you. — Melissa Landers

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well! — Marie Dressler

The best thing about being God would be making the heads. — Iris Murdoch

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way. — Bruce Bennett