Stampeding Elephants Quotes & Sayings

I may be too cynical to believe in love at first sight, Montgomery, but I believe in the click that happens between two people. — K. Bromberg

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God. — Ray Comfort

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing. — Henry Rollins

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises. — Maurice Sendak

If to look is to look at what is contained within its limitations, to see is to see the limitations themselves. Each new school of painting is new not because ti now contains subject matter ignored in earlier work, but because it sees the limitations previous artists imposed on their subject matter but could not see themselves. The earlier artists worked within the outlines they imagined; the later reworked their imaginations. — James P. Carse

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done. — Freeman Dyson

The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background. — Willa Cather

The reader, knowing nothing about the 'dark continent,' filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding outside while the good doctor recited Cicero and excised part of himself as blithely as if he were cutting for stone on the body of another. — Abraham Verghese

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals? — David Gemmell

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America. — Hillary Clinton