Ellsworth Kalas Quotes

#1. Honor is but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

#2. You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

J. Ellsworth Kalas

#3. What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

Walter Kirn

#4. I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

Vincent Gallo

#5. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Sophie Kinsella

#6. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

#7. Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine

Fanny Howe

#8. Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

John Lancaster Spalding

#9. Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

Blaise Pascal

#10. It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

Jenny Lawson

#11. The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

Rexford Tugwell

#12. At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#13. If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

Gil Scott-Heron

#14. I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Don't be an author when you write. Be a character.

T.C. Slonaker