Elberfeld Quotes

#1. A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

Lesslie Newbigin

#2. Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Success is not an outcome of coincidence, but rather the tangible result of choice: Comfort or ambition; fleeting pleasure or lasting fulfillment; walking past the open gate, or walking through it.

Evan W. Dorren

#4. With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

George Michael

#5. Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him - except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there was always a but with him. He had been her first lover - and he wanted to be her last.

Gena Showalter

#6. The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

Harlan Ellison

#7. I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Bishop

#8. Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Honore De Balzac

#9. Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. Actions speak louder than words, but sometimes words has more weight

Anonymous

#11. After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.

Ellen DeGeneres

#13. Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago.

Anne Frank