Elysian School Quotes

#1. Magnificent opportunity is often obscured by a humble veil ...

Simon Boylan

#2. A girl who wants everything, but shares nothing. A girl who is lost and sad, but too embarrassed to share it with anyone.

Lisa M. Gott

#3. The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Madness lives inside us all. It's just a matter of finding it, and knowing how to keep it hidden.

Stephanie M. Wytovich

#5. The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.

Guy P. Harrison

#6. A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

John F. Carlson

#7. It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

Dennis Eckersley

#8. I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Fred Rogers

#9. When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Britt Robertson

#10. Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

Teresa Of Avila

#11. I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

Dani Shapiro

#12. I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

Colm Toibin

#13. If you must compromise, compromise up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

Robert A. Dahl