Elana K Arnold Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time.

Elana K. Arnold

#2. As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

Elana K. Arnold

#3. I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now.

Elana K. Arnold

#4. Marissa keeps herself entertained by rating the guys that cruise by. She has her own rating scale: each guy is assigned a letter of the alphabet. But it isn't A to Z order - Marissa must have like a touch of autism or something, because she has this theory that some letters are sexier than others.

Elana K. Arnold

#5. Frankly, I had enjoyed the war ... and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

Adrian Carton De Wiart

#6. I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be.

Elana K. Arnold

#7. It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

Gunnar Nelson

#8. I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Rita Rudner

#9. If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mind-set. A change so profound that it touches your emotions will irresistibly affect your way of thinking and your lifestyle habits.

Marie Kondo

#10. The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Kenzaburo Oe

#12. That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.

Elana K. Arnold

#13. Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?

Marquis De Sade

#14. When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.

Tilda Swinton

#15. People do things.

Elana K. Arnold

#16. If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Paul Neilan

#17. Have you ever had the feeling that you aren't the main character in the story of your life? That you fill a more minor role- supporting cast, maybe, comic relief, or even antagonist.

Elana K. Arnold

#18. In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

Poppy Z. Brite

#19. When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

Tullian Tchividjian

#20. I kind of felt like now that I had ahold of her, I'd better hang on tight.

Elana K. Arnold

#21. The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Vincent Canby

#22. I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

Steffi Graf

#23. Maybe they're not "real" orgasms, since they're always when I'm alone. It's like that question: If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Probably solo orgasms don't count if a boy isn't there to witness them. To cause them.

Elana K. Arnold

#24. Hi Edison. If you had a blog, your posts would show up here.

Goodreads

#25. It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and the meal, and we eat them up--we eat their meat, we lap up their sweetness, we covet and control and consume.

Elana K. Arnold

#26. Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile.

Elana K. Arnold

#27. Even on your worst day, you can be someone's best hope.

Manny Scott

#28. Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

Elana K. Arnold