Leslie Earl Maxwell (L. E. Maxwell) Quotes

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

Leslie Earl Maxwell

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • She
  • Mother
  • Food

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Security

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• 'Mahershala' is my nickname.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Nickname

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • View
  • Mountains
  • Rocky

• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Perfect

• I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

  

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Tears