Famous Elmer Kelton Quotes & Sayings

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security — Nathanael Greene

I look at people in a different
perspective. I saw you differently. Shy
with a smart-ass mouth. Reserved, but you
know exactly how to cut loose. Girls like you
I have to watch out for. Girls like you are the
deadliest ones. — Shanora Williams

I've lived with guilt for all these years from walkin' away from the girl I loved more than anything. I've struggled with forgiving myself. I've fought every damn day to prove that I'm better for you!" He moves forward, forcing me to retreat. "I've given you every part of me, Presley." His chest heaves as tears form in his own eyes. "Me! Only me! I've kept all your secrets! I've stood by your side. Held you when you've cried over everything that Todd put you through! — Corinne Michaels

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. — Morihei Ueshiba

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too. — Kathie Lee Gifford

And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before. — Victoria Alexander

Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations - this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves.
Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget. — Jack London

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life. — Andy Stanley

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy. — Harry Anderson

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour! — David Berg

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. — Michael Mandelbaum