Elaine A. Cannon Quotes

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

Elaine A. Cannon

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Practice
  • Mirror

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Live
  • Die

• You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Feeling
  • Balance

• I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Imagination

• Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Blessed

• Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saintlike," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?" "Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.

  

  Bert Hellinger
  • Soul
  • Made
  • Greater

• To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Free

• Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Inside