Elshan Tang Quotes

#1. When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

#3. At the ending of the day when I'm weary after a waterfall of tears have all been cried - and I'm feeling like the skies will always be dreary - nothing's there to fill the emptiness inside.

Ellen M. DuBois

#4. Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.

Maeve Binchy

#5. Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

Paul Tergat

#6. I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Samuel Barber

#7. The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

Jeb Hensarling

#9. Conquer no man than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

James Joyce

#11. I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Dean Geyer

#12. God always smiles because of our little deeds done with a good heart, but to make the heart of God always beat for you, win and keep a soul for Him!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

John W. Gardner