Shomari Ellison Quotes

#1. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list
the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Karl Marx

#3. Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Homer

#4. She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn't reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.

Raymond Chandler

#5. Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

Marc Lasry

#6. The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

Simone Weil

#7. The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

Joseph Conrad

#8. Luke laughed, We were about to go rescue you from your captors. Pity you had to turn up so soon. I was hoping to storm the garrison gates and sally forth on horseback to carry you to safety.

Nicole Sager

#9. I . . . I'm not someone who can just . . . leave someone behind.

Jojo Moyes

#10. It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan