Top 100 Elias Quotes
#1. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#2. The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
Elias Canetti
#3. Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
Elias Canetti
#4. Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.
Elias James Corey
#5. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha
Elias Axmar
#7. I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.
Ric Elias
#8. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.
Thomas S. Monson
#9. I know that I'm a quirky guy, to say the least. I don't know how easy I am to cast for a network. It hasn't been because I haven't tried. But am I dying to be on a TV show? No.
Elias Koteas
#10. Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting
Sabaa Tahir
#11. There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Elias Canetti
#12. Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#13. his tongue had always been a stiletto razor, finely-honed, covered with poisoned rust and with a life of its own.
Elias Anderson
#14. We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.
Plutarco Elias Calles
#15. Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#16. There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
#17. His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti
#18. Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti
#19. Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
Elias Boudinot
#20. Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple", I murmur as I knee beside her. "You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release."- Elias
Sabaa Tahir
#21. Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
Norbert Elias
#22. I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.
Elias Koteas
#23. How could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
Elias Canetti
#24. It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
Elias Canetti
#25. What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
Elias Hicks
#26. I'd say it's impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.
Sabaa Tahir
#28. The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Elias Canetti
#29. After I pull my eyes away from her, I realize that I'm not the only one dumbstruck. Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. She doesn't seem to notice, which, of course, makes her all the more intriguing.
Sabaa Tahir
#30. She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
Elias Canetti
#32. It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
Elias Canetti
#34. In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
Elias Canetti
#35. History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Elias Canetti
#36. Her somewhat overly round head was wedged deep within her shoulders on a short body; it sat right upon it, as though there had never been such a thing as a neck, what a superfluous contraption.
Elias Canetti
#37. The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes.
Elias Khoury
#38. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way
Sabaa Tahir
#39. A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
#40. We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
Elias Hicks
#41. So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
Sabaa Tahir
#42. There is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127]
Elias Canetti
#43. We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#44. Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Elias Canetti
#45. your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making." Elias
Sabaa Tahir
#46. Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Elias Canetti
#47. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.
Elias Koteas
#48. To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
Elias Hicks
#49. You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.
Sabaa Tahir
#50. The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
Elias Canetti
#51. At this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came over me marked me forever. It became my true passion, utterly heedless of any attempts at convincing me or pointing out a better way.
Elias Canetti
#52. Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.
Irwin Shaw
#53. Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Elias Hicks
#54. Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
#55. Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#56. I slowly climbed the porch steps while wondering, what exactly did Elias know about my life in London; what precisely was wrong with his mind ...
And what was the heaviest item in my bag.
Jonathan Friesen
#57. Seizing and incorporating ... There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]
Elias Canetti
#58. As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
#59. The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth itself can we guard the greatest of all our liberties-the right to proclaim the truth. On that liberty rests the destiny of millions.
Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood
#60. Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates; a class without such teacher-mimics would have something lifeless about it.
Elias Canetti
#61. Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Elias Canetti
#62. Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.
Elias James Corey
#63. Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
Elias Canetti
#64. People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti
#65. All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
#66. It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.
Elias Hicks
#67. One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti
#68. Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#69. Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#70. There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
Elias Hicks
#71. There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.
Sabaa Tahir
#72. I should just build a bleeding house here," I mutter as I pick myself up off the snow-covered ground. "Maybe get a few chickens. Plant a garden.
Sabaa Tahir
#73. In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.
Elias James Corey
#74. Words shall not be hid
nor spells buried
might shall not sink underground
though the mighty go.
Elias Lonnrot
#75. Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Elias Canetti
#76. Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving."
"But they're dead," he says
"Yeah. That means they don't have to remember anything."
Elias shakes his head. "That means they can't ever love."
I snort. "So they don't know loss.
Carrie Ryan
#77. Nicu: It's not fair! Everybody has fangs but me, and I can't even turn into a bat properly. Sometimes when I try I end up as a sparrow!
Elias Zapple
#78. Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti
#79. The job of the Federal Reserve is "to know when to remove the punch bowl at the party." Under Alan Greenspan's leadership its motto became "let's all get drunk and see what happens." It is now the morning after and the world will be dealing with Greenspan's hangover for the next several decades.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#80. Walter Elias Disney is the name on this Window, although it is actually a tribute to all Disneyland Resort Cast Members, past and present.
Jeff Heimbuch
#81. The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Elias Canetti
#82. I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.
Sabaa Tahir
#83. Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century book collector and alchemist whose books and papers had come to the Bodleian from the Ashmolean Museum in the nineteenth century, along with the number 782.
Deborah Harkness
#84. Fear thrives strongest; there is no telling how little we would be without having suffered fear. An intrinsic characteristic of humanity is the tendency to give in to fear. No fear is lost, but its hiding places are a riddle. Perhaps, of all things, fear is the one that changes least.
Elias Canetti
#85. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias.
Sabaa Tahir
#86. The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#88. Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.
Elias Canetti
#89. The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.
Elias Canetti
#90. Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
#91. Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.
Tate Hallaway
#92. I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.
Elias Koteas
#93. There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don't know if we'll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn't matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom.
Sabaa Tahir
#94. I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.
Ric Elias
#95. Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Elias Hicks
#97. To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.
Elias James Corey
#98. How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.
Jonathan Friesen
#99. I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
Elias Hicks
#100. You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
Elias Hicks
