Unelastic Quotes

#1. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Art is competitive.

Robert Duvall

#3. Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.

Epictetus

#4. Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

Jack O'Brien

#5. She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.

Bill Condon

#6. I don't see why not," I all but snapped at him. "His body was experimented upon, and there are records of it. What else would you call it?"
"I don't know. Necropsy?

Cherie Priest

#7. Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.

Jane Austen

#9. Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

Khalil Gibran

#10. Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.

Stephen King

#11. For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Andre Dubus

#12. I can't speak. I have no voice. I just stare at his dark blue yes. It feels as though I let the lifeboat sail away. I'm drowning in a sea of pain. He reached out, but I can't take his hand.

H.M. Ward

#13. Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Erasmus Darwin