Els's Quotes

#1. Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends.

Richard Powers

#2. We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. Once the baby's scalp protruded, we all hunkered down and braced ourselves.

David Z. Hirsch

#3. The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Paul David Tripp

#4. No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

Charles Grandison Finney

#5. Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

Saint Ignatius

#6. There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

Warren Ellis

#7. I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

Lydia Lunch

#8. If your waiting for someone you respect to say what you need to hear, you may never hear it. Gems hide under any rock.

Garrett McCoy

#9. Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

Pliny The Elder

#10. I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

Aaron Lazar

#11. People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.

Dave Eggers

#12. Did I not tell you that would gag a maggot on a gut wagon?

Duck Dynasty

#13. Do you love me?' he asked instead. 'Because if you don't, I'd wait until you did. I'd wait weeks and months and years.

Melina Marchetta