Elizebeth Kanoa > Elizebeth's Quotes

“I told you she was doing all four of 'em.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“Life is full of
Mysteries. Why?
Is a Mystery”
― Gary Edward Gedall, The Island of Pleasure, Vol 1: Venice

“J. Robert Oppenheimer observed people’s reaction to the use of nuclear weapons and he said, “A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” If we keep silent and sit on the sidelines instead of speaking up and marching forward, human suffering will continue and inevitably escalate.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“I feel like a violet standing alone in a vast meadow. When a cool, gentle breeze blows, I feel peaceful. If the wind turns strong and hot from the south, I plot suicide.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed.
Light flooded in.
And with it, hope.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

“...Borrower's don't steal."
"Except from human beings," said the boy.
Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“Her tedbirli aile başkanı için baş kural, evde yapılması, satın alınmasından pahalıya geleni, hiçbir zaman evde yapmaya kalkmamaktır.”
― Adam Smith

“Why can I take it when Dally can’t? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“Do not hope; instead, observe” were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

“The moments between your milestones are not filler.”
― Nelou Keramati

“He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
ship”
― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

“Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“من المستحيل أن نشعر أننا أحياء اذا لم نفكر أيضا بأننا سنموت يوما”
― Jostein Gaarder, عالم صوفي

“She’s like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.”
― Philippa Gregory, The King's Curse

“Marcellus cudgeled his memory. What did he know about Arpino? Delicious little melons! Arpino melons! And exactly the right time for them, too.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

“We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.”
― William Faulkner

“What makes you think you can come before the bench waving the banner of community pressure? The law is not a creature of the few or of the many.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

“It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live...

a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate?”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“A job well done is a reward in its own right,”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence. (page 402)”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“This is one of the ironies of being told that we live in a time of unprecedented connection. It is true that we can and do communicate across vast geographies with an ease and speed that were unimaginable only a generation ago. But in the midst of this global web of chatter, we somehow manage to be less connected to the people with whom we are most intimately enmeshed... Ours is an economy of ghosts, of deliberate blindness. Air is the ultimate unseen, and the greenhouse gases that warm it are our most elusive ghosts of all.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal