Glotzbach Ellen Quotes & Sayings

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Maybe I can save her right now, in this moment, and if I can do that, maybe it will save me and maybe that can be enough. — Katja Millay

I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking. — Robert Goulet

I'm not one to sit around and be satisfied about something. I can always get better. — Derek Jeter

One afternoon I lay on my bed, inert with mental fatigue, enumerating my many frustrations with the country & with the task I had set myself. It had taken me months of work to get this far, & every step of the way I felt I was pushing against some mighty, unspoken resistance. Time & time again I had felt that hardly a fact or a single item of information had been volunteered; every day I made half a dozen telephone calls; I trekked out to interview anyone who would talk to me, then found myself returning to the same place to ask for more information--questions I had omitted to ask, chase details they did not think, or perhaps wish, to supply. This was as true of people who had no reason to dissemble as of those who did. — Aminatta Forna

No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated. — Kim Holden

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. — Immanuel Kant

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. — Agnes Repplier

Me. I see moments of heartbreak that led to honesty about myself I wouldn't have been able to get to any other way. I am thankful for what I learned, what I became, what God gave me and what God took away during that season. — Shauna Niequist

The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann

The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind. — Richard Llewellyn

It's your way,' he says. 'When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes. — Lauren DeStefano