Elisabet Norris > Elisabet's Quotes

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
― Jim Morrison

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
― Jim Morrison

“Let the bullshitters have their bullshit. You and me, we have lives to live. And once you open your mouth to respond to their bullshit--well, that's when you're knee-deep in it.”
― Daniel Clausen, The Ghosts of Nagasaki

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“A robotic life is worse than an imprisoned because it's an enslaved life.”
― Aaron Millar

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. ”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“All truth-seekers should study the genocide that was the Holocaust and ask themselves how on Earth this event was 'allowed' to occur, keeping in mind allowed is the correct term as there was no shortage of witnesses, including those all over Europe who stood by and did nothing to intervene. If those bystanders hadn’t just stood by, perhaps the history books would tell a different story.”
― James Morcan, Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories

“With the publication of this book we, as non-Jews, are doing our small part to stand up for the truth. So let us state unequivocally here and now: the Holocaust happened EXACTLY as per the history books. Period. Fact. No debate whatsoever.”
― James Morcan, Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― James Morcan, Genius Intelligence

“the knowledge of all things is possible,” as Leonardo da Vinci once stated.”
― James Morcan, Genius Intelligence

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Studies have shown the subconscious mind can process around 11 million bits of information per second. The conscious mind, however, can only process about 15 to 16 bits of information per second.”
― James Morcan, Genius Intelligence

“You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.”
― Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Vol. 1

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain