Elgie Young Quotes

#1. There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#2. Kindness is the stuff of moments, but it can be absolutely transformative in moments. Beautiful lives are transformative in moments. But we have to train ourselves to look for them.

Krista Tippett

#3. Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

Asif Kapadia

#5. The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

Spencer W. Kimball

#6. I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

Colson Whitehead

#7. The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

Conan O'Brien

#8. The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Bill Gates

#9. His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

Elton Trueblood

#10. I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

Dashiell Hammett

#11. Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

John Piper

#12. In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove."
"So I have been informed, sir."
"Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do pastoral dances.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. When you least expect it, life may propose something to you. Something you might not necessarily be looking for, but without a doubt has the ability to offer your life some form of enrichment.

Scott Hildreth

#14. Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

Jeffrey Gitomer