Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Family
  • Where
  • Ever

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • You
  • Law
  • City

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Me
  • Going
  • Eating

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Pressure
  • Stronger
  • Group

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.

  

  Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
  • Music
  • Business
  • Black

• Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hope

• Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Hope

• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox