Purely Elizabeth Quotes & Sayings

If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you? — Chuck Wendig

America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word. — Sam Smith

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. — Maria Bamford

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent. — Bryan Stevenson

The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters. — William Gibson

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less. — Elizabeth Bowen

The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree - they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative. — Elizabeth McCracken

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were. — Hugh Mackay

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper! — George W. Bush

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve. — Jayson Williams

To have a family is real strange," said India thoughtfully. "All these people you wouldn't have anything to do with except that they're related to you. — Michael McDowell

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex. — Paulo Coelho

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? — David Brin

Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass. — Elizabeth Enright

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated. — Elizabeth Keckley

The neurotic youth of to-day renews no ante-existent type. You will look in vain for a face like Amos's amongst the busts of the recovered past. The same weakness of outline you may point to - the sheep-like features falling to a blunt prow; the lax jaw and pinched temples - but not to that which expresses a consciousness that combative effort in a world of fruitless results is a lost desire.
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes