Elnora's Quotes

#1. I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.
I object!" repeated the man.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#2. The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Isaac D'Israeli

#3. I have to take care of this," faltered Elnora, hurrying toward the door to hide the tears which were rolling down her cheeks. "I must help," said Philip, disappearing also. "Elnora," he called, catching up with her, "take me where

Gene Stratton-Porter

#4. I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Edward Norton

#5. No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Robert Bork

#6. He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair
and maybe putting on some lip gloss
being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.

Bram Stoker

#8. People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Bob Woodward

#9. But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ...

Gene Stratton-Porter

#10. night. A pretty figure you'd cut if you had your way! And after I've gone and bought you this nice new pail and filled it especial to start on!" Elnora came

Gene Stratton-Porter

#11. We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.
We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.
We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#12. Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Bertrand Russell

#13. Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#14. You people are not splitting wood, called Elnora.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#15. Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

Christopher Moore

#16. I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable.

Damon Galgut

#17. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.

Margo T. Rose

#18. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

L. Frank Baum

#19. In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave the nest.

William Manchester