Elihu Burritt Quotes

#1. If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Erich Fromm

#2. Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

Elihu Burritt

#3. Our minds are like certain vehicles,
when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

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#4. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

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#5. Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can ... I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted.

Denise Duhamel

#6. You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

Carrie Underwood

#7. Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

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#8. All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.

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#9. All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

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#10. Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.

Peter Bishop

#11. People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!

Garrison Wynn

#12. We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.

Richard Lamm

#13. Your life is on the line, practice well.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#14. Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

Elihu Burritt

#15. And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

Maya Angelou

#16. Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

#17. As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

#18. Where do you go if you don't belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.

Steven Wilson

#19. The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Kerry Healey

#20. If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Michelle Obama

#21. Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

Michelle Ryan

#22. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

Elihu Burritt

#23. She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

Holly Black

#24. The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan