Elna Baker Quotes

#1. Sadie and I locked eyes. We had a brief, silent exchange, something like:
You ask her.
No, you.
Of course Sadie's better at giving dirty looks, so I lost the contest.

Rick Riordan

#2. It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Derek Thompson

#3. How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

#4. I know it is possible to feel this way about other people," I began, pointing to my heart, "I know that there are a lot of ways to love and that each person I date will bring out a different part of me and I will love them all differently. But I always like how I liked you the best.

Elna Baker

#5. I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)

Elna Baker

#6. Population Explosion [10w]
The world will soon have more live people than dead.

Beryl Dov

#7. unless a person learns to set goals and to recognize and gauge feedback in such activities, she will not enjoy them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#8. I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.

Bette Midler

#9. I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

Dave Matthews

#10. It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

Mike DeWine

#11. I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.

Elna Baker

#12. Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

Sam Wyly

#13. You know what your problem is?" he continued.
"What?"
"You believe a buncha different things, you've lived in a buncha different places, and now, nobody's like you."
"Thanks, Vinny. No one tells you what being unique actually means: that you'll die alone.

Elna Baker

#14. When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.

Elna Baker

#15. The thing with restaurant talk is you're not supposed to take it to heart.

Elna Baker

#16. I even tried to usher her into this century by explaining that wearing rainbows didn't automatically mean a person was gay. The Lucky Charms leprechaun was not necessarily a homosexual. The Care Bear with the rainbow on his tummy did not have a life partner. He didn't even have genitals. (6)

Elna Baker

#17. I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Albert Camus

#18. How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

David Foster Wallace

#19. It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Marcus Aurelius

#20. The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

Horace