Richard Ely Quotes

#1. I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

Tanya Roberts

#2. I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day.

V.C. Andrews

#3. No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

Sydney J. Harris

#4. With my spyglass I can observe a woman who is reading on a terrace in the valley," I told her. "I wonder if the books she reads are calming or upsetting."
"How does the woman seem to you? Calm or upset?"
"Calm."
"Then she reads upsetting books.

Italo Calvino

#5. Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

Jim Caviezel

#6. The Gita has sung the praises of Knowledge, but it is beyond the mere intellect; it is essentially addressed to the heart and capable of being understood by the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I breathed in, he breathed out. We traded actual air.

Alice Clayton

#8. I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.

Rebecca Stead

#9. Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Holbrook Jackson

#10. Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

Jay Gould

#12. I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.

Tommy Hilfiger

#13. How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?

Ruth Ozeki