http://www.elise.com/quotes/ elise's collection of favorite quotes en-us elise@elise.com 2008-02-15T01:03:00-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/henry_ward_beecher_perseverance_and_obstinancy.php The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~ Henry Ward Beecher... 7142@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-02-15T01:03:00-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/laurence_shames_success_and_failure.php Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~ Laurence Shames... 7141@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-02-15T01:02:01-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/hermann_goering_the_people_can_always_be_brought_to_the_bidding_of_the_leaders.php “Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the... 6232@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-01-02T11:52:01-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/arianna_huffington_whittled_and_sandpapered.php We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are. Arianna Huffington On Becoming Fearless: ...in Love, Work, and Life, pg. 159... 6179@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-11-26T18:56:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/fernando_flores_we_human_beings_belong_to_language.php We human beings belong to language. In language we love and hate, we admire and despise. We interpret our crises as individual and social. We suffer, and exalt, and despair. In language, we receive the gift of being human. All the feeling, the thinking, the action, and the things of the world as we know it are given to us in language. Fernando Flores... 6178@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-11-26T16:25:43-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/rumi_if_you_are_irritated_by_every_rub.php If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? Rumi... 6118@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-10-10T12:51:42-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/fail_early_and_get_it_over_with.php "Fail early and get it all over with. If you learn to deal with failure, you can raise teenagers. You can abide in intimate relationships. And you can have a worthwhile career. You learn to breathe again when you embrace failure as a part of life, not as the determining moment of life." Rev. William L. Swig Stanford 2007 Baccalaureate Celebration... 5207@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-06-26T19:38:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/instead_of_making_art.php "Most of us spend many hours each week watching celebrated athletes playing in enormous stadiums. Instead of making music, we listen to platinum records cut by millionaire musicians. Instead of making art, we go to admire paintings that brought in the highest bids at the latest auction. We do not run risks acting on our beliefs, but occupy hours each day watching actors who pretend to have adventures, engaged in mock-meaningful action. This vicarious participation... 5095@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-04-22T08:20:09-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/heres_to_the_crazy_ones.php Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes - the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. - Jack Kerouac quoted in an... 1757@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2006-02-12T09:14:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/thomas_merton_one_of_the_great_tragedies_of_our_time.php One of the great tragedies of our time is that in our desperate incapacity to cope with the complexities of our world, we oversimplify every issue and reduce it to a neat ideological formula. Doubtless we have to do something in order to grasp things quickly and effectively. But unfortunately this "quick and effective grasp" too often turns out to be no grasp at all, or only a grasp on a shadow. The ideological formulas... 1596@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2005-11-21T10:11:56-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/small_things.php You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things. -Den Ming~Dao... 1505@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2005-10-16T14:24:52-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/heinlein_specialization_is_for_insects.php A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein... 1479@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2005-10-10T19:07:32-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/you_cant_teach_a_pig_to_sing.php You can't teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.... 1377@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Sayings 2005-08-28T00:10:09-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/the_yankee_motto.php Use it up, Wear it out, Make do, Or do without.... 1353@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Sayings 2005-08-23T19:44:30-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/dedication_to_jesus_st_ignatius_loyola.php Lord Jesus Christ, take away my freedom, my memory, my understanding, and my will. All that I have and cherish you have given me. I surrender it all to be guided by your will. Your love and your grace are wealth enough for me. Give me these, Lord Jesus, and I ask for nothing more. Amen. St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)... 1119@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Prayers 2005-05-30T22:46:40-08:00