Top 65 Elissa Quotes
#1. I have no issue with Elissa. She's a fantastic stage manager, and we've worked together before. In fact, a million years ago we used to be good friends. Back when I still thought her brother was born of a human mother and not spawned straight from Satan's asshole.
Leisa Rayven
#2. Elissa cleared her throat. "I won't hate you," she said. "Whatever you do, I won't end up hating you." [ ... ] "Whatever you do, it doesn't make a difference." Linked, pp 249 -250
Imogen Howson
#3. My life's goal is not trying to prove others wrong. My sole focus is on proving myself right."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#4. Being of service to others is the price we should pay as a form of gratitude for the gift of life."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#5. In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#6. JEALOUSY - The Art of counting the blessings of others instead of recognizing your own.
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#7. When we express kindness, we can't help but experience kindness. - Elissa M. Schauer
Gary Chapman
#8. His eyes widen. Then he laughs. "Elissa isn't my girlfriend. Jesus, that's disgusting. She's my sister." It's my turn to be surprised. "Your sister?" "Yes." Relief has never felt more odious.
Leisa Rayven
#9. I am not a noble, I do not have the blood of knights in me." Elissa squeezed his hands. "I am not asking for your blood, but your heart.
Brad Clark
#10. Don't highlight the flaws in my structure if you're unwilling to repair the cracks in your very own foundation."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#11. In my life, I have learned to accept personal responsibility for my circumstances and that acceptance has given me the power to change them."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#12. You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.
Elissa Schappell
#13. A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.
Elissa Schappell
#14. On a planet where for thousands of years, even today, a woman's worth has been judged exclusively by the productivity of her womb, what the hell is the point of a barren woman?
Elissa Stein And Susan Kim
#17. Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for.
Elissa Gabrielle
#18. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
Peter V. Brett
#19. I've learned that our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced our lives, but we are responsible for who we become and in the same breath, who we become can't be preached and can only really be shown through our actions.
Elissa Gabrielle
#20. I trust my life is far richer and my spirit is more resilient than they ever would have been if I had enjoyed an easy beginning.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#23. To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#24. How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives
Holly Elissa Bruno
#26. The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
Elissa Schappell
#27. It's strange how a plan can unfold sometimes - an umbrella shooting up at the touch of a button and extending out in all directions quickly, effortlessly.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#28. Leaning out, or walking away, doesn't mean that you've given up. This
Elissa Shevinsky
#29. A real woman can compliment and celebrate another woman's beauty, intelligence, passion, sex appeal, and creativity without compromise because a real woman understands that when she lifts her sisters up, it takes nothing away from her and she elevates herself in the process.
Elissa Gabrielle
#30. Everything I think I can't say 'cause it'd come out fucking emo, like, if I were to say what I've been thinking all day, every day: I don't know if I can go on like this forever; or, I'm also always thinking, it shouldn't be this hard just to have a brain. Everyone has a brain.
Elissa Washuta
#31. In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.
Elissa Schappell
#32. I treat people with respect, love, kindness and grace not because of who they are, but because of who I am.
Elissa Gabrielle
#33. Sure, life as we know it is enough. But life as we don't know it? That's where the magic awaits. That's where second chances abound.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#34. Stress and anxiety are the products of fear and fear is not having faith.
Elissa Goodman
#35. In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow.
Elissa Stein And Susan Kim
#37. You kissed me.' I tear my eyes away from the mirror to face her. We are close, so close standing here. My lungs might be carved out of granite, cast from bronze, the way they refuse to expand, to fill with air.
'You kissed me back,' says Kat softly.
I nod. There's nothing more to say.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#38. Today is the day to move pass your past, move closer to your dreams, rise above your detractors, feel the fear and do it anyway, stoop below your ego, get out of your own way, and allow your life to amaze you.
Elissa Gabrielle
#39. Never let them take what you're not willing to give.
Elissa Sussman
#40. A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#41. Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.
Elissa Schappell
#42. Certainly, men have been availing themselves of the services of prostitutes from the moment those early hominids stood upright and certain women could say, "Hey there, sailor"; it's not called the world's oldest profession for nothing.
Elissa Stein
#43. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.
Elissa Schappell
#44. There are no truths, there are no lies, only the filter before your eyes.
Elissa Young
#45. There are some things you can never return from. Some things you can never undo.
Elissa Sussman
#46. Stop making your self-worth conditional on other people. No one, and I mean absolutely no one has the power to devalue your existence.
Elissa Gabrielle
#47. Each of us each day, each moment, has a choice: give ourselves and others a second chance or turn away.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#48. It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow
such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#49. By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.
Elissa Schappell
#50. Walking the wire is living. The rest is just waiting.
Elissa Wald
#51. What I Cannot Say
only this
I was looking
for evidence of unconditional love,
but what I found was you.
standing on the ferry deck
your dark hair a fury in the wind
Are you lost to me?
Elissa Janine Hoole
#52. I wonder if it hurts, being carved out like this, one grain of sand at a time. I wonder if the rocks realize that for every part of themselves they lose, they gain something beautiful
Elissa Janine Hoole
#54. Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Holly Elissa Bruno
#55. Liberation is a beautiful thing when embarking on the glorious moment when the truth about someone is revealed to you, in bold and vibrant color and you have the courage, with wide-open eyes to see reality more vividly, and the wisdom to act accordingly.
Elissa Gabrielle
#56. To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#57. We don't get better by chance, we only become better by absolute change.
Elissa Gabrielle
#58. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.
Elissa Schappell
#59. You can have all the right ingredients, have measured them carefully and mixed them, but without warmth, you'll end up with a loaf of bread flatter than a plate. And while you might be able to eat it, it won't feed you.
Elissa Sussman
#60. Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
Elissa Schappell
#61. Let's stay up all night,' Kat whispers. 'Let's wait for the moon to kiss the morning star.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#62. All we need to do is look up, notice where we are, and be open to the
possibility of wonder.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#65. Educators are spiritual beings - we are on earth to make a difference.
Holly Elissa Bruno
