Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• Ineffective

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• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
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• But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?

  

  Laini Taylor
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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  

  Anita Loos
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• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  

  Umar
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Easier

• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Up
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• For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Movie
  • Universe
  • Cool

• A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
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• Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Priority

• I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

  

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  • Wife

• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • My Life
  • Chaos
  • Addicted

• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Child
  • Books
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• The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Law
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• Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Sin
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  • Mortals

• If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Consciousness
  • Despair
  • Passions

• I was trying to explain to myself why I was so happy. I hadn't ever felt this happy. I finally understood something about life and its inexplicable logic. I'd wanted to be certain of everything, and life was never going to give me any certitude. I thought of Fito, who always lived in hope when life had offered him no hope. Certitude was a luxury he had never been able to afford. All he'd ever had was a heart incapable of despair.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Happy
  • Logic
  • Despair

• For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Despair
  • Commerce

• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Limits
  • Gain

• I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Despair
  • Noticed
  • Ineffective