Ellen Schreiber Quotes
I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?
Quotes to Explore
-
The march of the human mind is slow.
-
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
-
I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
-
I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
-
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
-
The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
-
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
-
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
-
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
-
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
-
I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.
-
No matter our background, we all have crazy families.
-
Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.
-
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
-
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
-
I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food.
-
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
-
Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
-
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
-
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
-
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
-
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
-
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
-
I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?
