E.S. Russell Quotes

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

All of the teams have great players, but the fans are a major part of it - your atmosphere is what you become.

I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self.

In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.

I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive level instead of intellectualizing things.

A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor.

My joy will be in serving.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.

The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.

There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.