Elvers Eels Quotes & Sayings

Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing. — Annie Dillard

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below. — Karl Barth

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back. — Andy Warhol

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. — Simon Wiesenthal

I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!' — Cristin Milioti

One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust. — Erik Larson

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change. — Raheel Farooq

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself. — Stephen Richards

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups
(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logic. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities. — H.P. Lovecraft

Its not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don't want you to miss out on the things someone else could give you. — Jojo Moyes

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. — Alexander MacLaren

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. — Brooke Shields