Elaine Cunningham Quotes

If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand.

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• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Playing
  • Because
  • Tennessee

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Page
  • Far
  • Newspaper

• My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • America
  • Write

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Art
  • Acting
  • Fake

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Want
  • Career

• Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • World
  • Things
  • Innocence

• Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Single

• Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • May
  • Game
  • Player

• So that's life, then: things are they are? It picks its way on the blue guitar. A million people on one string? And all their manner in the thing, And all their manner, right and wrong, And all their manner, weak and strong? And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Life
  • Strong

• The first idea is an imagined thing.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad...

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cold

• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Work
  • Men
  • Children

• I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Women
  • Language
  • Singers

• You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.

  

  Amos Lee
  • People
  • Effort

• I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Perfect
  • Advice
  • Sowing

• If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand.

  

  Elaine Cunningham
  • Hand
  • Hunt
  • Arrows