Elliot > Elliot's Quotes

“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”
― Ford Madox Ford

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“Sometimes you have to give up the easy thing and do the right one,”
― Charles Lambert, The Children's Home

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tourist: “What time do they let the bears out?” Ranger: “They’re out all the time.” Tourist: “What do you mean?”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear Bloopers: True Stories from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Smokies Wildlife Ranger Book 4

“Tourist: “How high do you have to get before the deer turn into elk?” Ranger: “High on what?” Tourist: “I mean elevation.” Ranger:  “What?” Tourist:  “At what elevation will a deer become an elk?”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Bear Bloopers: True Stories from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Smokies Wildlife Ranger Book 4

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If Grogssson's got the case, you might as well rifle the body, rob the place and draw a moustache on the corpse; he wouldn't mind.”
― G.S. Denning, A Study in Brimstone

“Poirot,” I said. “I have been thinking.” “An admirable exercise, my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

“I felt grateful for the “we.” Poirot has a habit of sometimes ignoring my existence.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

“Smeathman’s life is worth examining, because it sheds light on an aspect of early science that most historians overlook—how intertwined science and slavery were.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“(This should go without saying, but given how charged this topic is, it’s worth being explicit: the Africans were the victims here, not the white European.)”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“In a callous response to this complaint, one politician argued that supplying bodies for research was the least the poor could do. After all, look at all the free meals and medical care they’d enjoyed on the public dime during their lives.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“In 2004, a funeral director from Staten Island got caught selling bodies to the U.S. Army for $30,000; the army was dressing the bodies in armored footwear and dangling them over land mines to test how well the footwear worked.)”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“As one historian noted, doctors “joined the Nazi party earlier and in greater numbers than any other professional group.” As healers, they especially relished Nazi rhetoric about “curing” society’s ills and eliminating “cancerous” Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“one bioethicist argued, “Implied consent is no consent at all.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“Regardless, Watts was outraged, and demanded that Freeman stop doing experimental brain surgery in their office.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“I’m not kidnapping children,” said Fenris. “I realize we’re working for a higher cause here, but I have to draw the line.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“He was a wooden puppet. Some kind of marionette, Marra thought, the kind that traveling performers used to entertain very young children. He had the carved hands and the clacking jaw, the articulated arms and legs. But the only string on him was a black cord that looped Miss Margaret’s throat, and the puppet held it in one hand. He moved as they watched. It was a slow, considered movement, like a tortoise turning its head in the sun, and it set Marra’s nerves crawling. “Oh, interesting,” said Agnes in a tone of professional curiosity. “That’s a curse-child, isn’t it?” The puppet scowled. Bits of wood dragged down across his face. He yanked tightly on the string. The woman nodded, her eyes large and alarmed and clearly begging her visitors not to say more.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“The clouds looked dark and heavy, much like her soul, ready to pour all its wet, icy contents onto the school grounds.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie