Ellen Thorpe > Ellen's Quotes

“It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever.”
― Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

“When you finish a negative sentence, it grows immediately into a paragraph, and then into a thesis, into so many words that grab your ankles and hold you in place. When a negative thought comes into your mind, you have to literally say out loud, “I have no time now.” People will look at you strangely, but you have to just keep saying it until it lodges in your mind. Release the negative thought before you put a period on the end of it. If you put a period on the end of it, you’re in the morass. On the other hand, if you don’t finish the negative thought, you can get it out of your brain by replacing it with a positive. What kind of positive? What I always say in my talks is that it is a moist chocolate Bundt cake with soft chocolate chips. No frosting.”
― Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something.”
― John Lewis

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
― Albert Einstein

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly