Janier Ellis Quotes & Sayings

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity. — Henry Ward Beecher

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope De Vega

Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks? — Deacon Jones

There is no perfection only life — Milan Kundera

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. — Bruce Schneier

The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you strive for quiet, you become impatient, and impatience is itself a noiseless noise. You can block every superficial sound, but, with each new layer extinguished, a next rises up, finer and more entrapping, until you arrive at last in the infinite attitude of your own riotous mind. Inside is where all the memories last like wells, and the unspoken wishes like golden buds, and the pain that you keep, lingering and implicit, staying inside, nesting inside, articulating, articulating, through to the day you die. (p. 240) — Hilary Thayer Hamann

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer. — Yves Rossy

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class. — Blake McIver Ewing

The mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all. — Louis L'Amour

If you be King, why should not I succeed? — William Shakespeare

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. — Harold Holzer

There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that. — John Tesh

In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
stir the aspects of life waiting within us. — Mark Nepo