Elvas Quotes

#1. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.

Jose Saramago

#2. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?

Jane Wagner

#4. Will bear witness to Your merciful acts; throughout the day I will speak of all the ways You deliver, although, I admit, I do not know the entirety of either.

Anonymous

#5. It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

#6. For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

Edward Bernays

#7. It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. We don't teach our children how to dream.

Stephen LaBerge

#9. I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. I bought a new pair of pajamas with pockets, which is great, cause now i don't have to hold things when I sleep.

Demetri Martin

#11. Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

Chris Brogan

#12. Not a hothouse flower, this daughter of Leoch, despite her surroundings.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and create -- or at least, to have warranted the dropping of a question on one's plate.

Amor Towles

#14. Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Euripides

#15. To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

Tina Fey