Elzee Quotes & Sayings

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. — Daisy Berkowitz

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff. — John Poindexter

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! — William Shakespeare

Whatever you want to do, if you do it with all your heart, it will happen. — William Kamkwamba

At some point you have to toss aside the things and people that don't work and JUST. BUILD. YOUR. EMPIRE. — Travis Simmons

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. — Theodore Roosevelt

The only rule I have is to quit while it's still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it's going good. Then it's easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you'll get into a dead spell and you'll have trouble with it. — William Faulkner

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts. — George Whitefield

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic. — James Salter

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what conditions will make us happy and then we work to bring those conditions about. To live for happiness means that you are trying to get something out of life. But when suffering comes along, it takes the conditions for happiness away, and so suffering destroys all your reason to keep living. But to "live for meaning" means not that you try to get something out of life but rather that life expects something from us. In other words, you have meaning only when there is something in life more important than your own personal freedom and happiness, something for which you are glad to sacrifice your happiness.129 — Timothy Keller

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. — Marguerite Duras

We are what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut

She lifted her eyes to his face, and found his gaze lined with silver. "Get up," was all he said. — Sarah J. Maas

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage. — Wayne Pacelle