Proper Use Of Ellipses In Quotes & Sayings

It seemed like five minutes later we were here, the Land That Time Forgot, watching the removal van disappear round the corner like a last hope. — Caroline Green

They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed) — Steve Almond

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it - which comes to the same thing - is by writing in it. — Mortimer J. Adler

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. — Robert Dale Owen

Because how could I rest, when the world is so cruel and hard, and yet might be so sweet. — Sarah Walters

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process. — Shakti Gawain

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca The Younger

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten. — Leena Ahmad Almashat

Her hate was a thing of glory. — Renee Ahdieh

The moment you start to believe something is impossible, the moment it ceases to exist. — A.D.Y. Howle

I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good that often comes as a result of pain. For there is nothing, from the lowest, weakest tone of suffering to the loftiest acme of pain, to which God does not respond. There is nothing in all the universe which does not in some way vibrate within the heart of God. No creature suffers alone; He suffers with His creatures and through it is in the process of bringing His sons and daughters through the cleansing and glorifying fires, without which the created cannot be made the very children of God, partakers of the divine nature and peace. — George MacDonald

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves. — Harold S. Kushner

I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night. — Groucho Marx

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love. — Eric Weiner