El > El's Quotes

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Hidden

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.”
― Genghis Khan

“What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?”
― Nikki Rowe

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!