Elate Quotes

#1. Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to

Charles Dickens

#2. We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

Humberto Maturana

#3. My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read - I like to buy.

A. Edward Newton

#4. What constitutes a state? ... Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ... And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

#5. These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words.

Laura Gentile

#6. Tohr laughed softly. Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l?

J.R. Ward

#7. If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

Rose McIver

#8. Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...

Giacomo Puccini

#9. The past is always an invented land.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. I'm not particularly fond of the Summer bitch, pardon my French,

Julie Kagawa

#11. Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#12. As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

Kenneth R. Miller

#13. Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

C.S. Lewis

#14. To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

Hector Hugh Munro

#15. You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you ... happiness is your natural state.

Russell Simmons

#16. Oh love, you break on me like light!

Sophocles

#17. What joy a forest without birds can give? And what happiness a man without jokes can create?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate

Phillip Gary Smith

#19. Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#20. Mason glowers, shaking his head. I've ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List's not ended, - but haven't yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee.

Thomas Pynchon