H. F. Ellis Quotes
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.
If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.
Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.
Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.Wonder if he's for sale.People are afraid to merge. To merge.
I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.
Murder is murder, as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.
Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.
The entire population of Blackfin maintained a wary distance from her, as though the skeletons in their closets were spring-loaded and ready to burst out onto the front lawn.
For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse, ” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26
in time to come be shaped by the human mind.” Asked
They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.
. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it quite comfortably that we're humankind, and not angels.
Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.
If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have." - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6
This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.
She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking.She will follow the moon.
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.
The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.
Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.
Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.
@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.
Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.
The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.