Raupach Wollert Elmendorff Quotes

#1. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

John Wooden

#3. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.

Christina Applegate

#4. Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Hanna Rosin

#5. The more he rode the trolleys and trains of New York, the more they seemed to form a giant, malevolent bellows, inhaling defenseless passengers from platforms and street corners and blowing them out again elsewhere.

Helene Wecker

#6. This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged ...

Teresa Of Avila

#7. After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

Maria V. Snyder

#8. Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#9. I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Edith Wharton

#10. To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Thomas A. Edison

#11. Never expect owt for nowt.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

#12. No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.

Unknown

#13. When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

John O'Donohue