Nelle Quotes & Sayings

May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old! — D.L. Moody

My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count. — J. Nelle Patrick

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. — Bruce Lee

The world is the world, and we're cast in whatever roles we fall into. It's not my fault I was born wealthy any more than you were born poor. — J. Nelle Patrick

You said it wasn't your fault for being born rich any more than it was my fault for being born poor. And you're right. But if we don't do anything to fix the world, if we just shrug and let children starve and soldiers die and people be treated like cattle ... if we don't fix the world, Miss Kutepova, I believe it becomes our fault. — J. Nelle Patrick

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.] — Francesco Guicciardini

Men are stupid; women are crazy. And women are crazy because men are stupid. — Nelle L'Amour

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. — Anonymous

Regarding people who were difficult to accept or respect, Nelle said, Our response to these people represents our earthly test. And I think, that these people enrich the wonder of our lives. It is they who most need our kindness, because the seem less deserving. After all, anyone can love people who are lovely — Harper Lee

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. — John Lubbock

I loved him in a way that I knew would never stop, in a way that would hurt forever. — J. Nelle Patrick

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance. — Fred Astaire

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence. — Nelle Morton

Love hopes for happy endings. — J. Nelle Patrick

I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence. — Parker J. Palmer

On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it. — Austin Nichols

Look, you don't have to believe me," Nelle told him. "Hell, you can even try and resist fate if you want. But God has a plan for you, Racath Thanjel. Fate has a plan for you. Sooner or later your own choices will bring you into that plan. — S.G. Night

I have often perplexed myself over what I saw in Nelle Snyder's aged face at that moment. It was no look of paranoia. It was a look of waiting. Perpetual waiting. That look was to come back to me sixteen years later when I heard Rose's narration at the end of James Cameron's Titanic, with its line about survivors "waiting for an absolution that never came." Yet the waiting I saw in Nelle Snyder's face seemed larger even than a waiting for absolution. It seemed vaster even than Titanic herself. Call it the waiting of the Mother of all Perished Vessels. Or of a Ship of Honeymoon Dreams perchance, with a passenger list spanning all humanity, that once proudly sailed but was lost, aeons ago, and sank to a dark, unreachable abode where nothing whatsoever can be grasped about her except her perplexing power still to haunt us. — James Glaeg

(A) jewel with a little dirt on it is still a jewel — J. Nelle Patrick

Real men won't ever do any of the following: Wear pinky rings Sing along to Madonna Cry during the Bachelorette Wear a man bun Go to Pilates class Wear speedos — Manly M. Mann

And I can tell you, without question, that it's too late for any man who goes to war. Even if he lives, he'll never come back the same. — J. Nelle Patrick