Elly Kleinman Americare Quotes

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe ~ William Shakespeare

Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather) ~ Paul Kleinman

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. ~ Marilynne Robinson

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. ~ Sylvia Plath

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ~ Agatha Christie

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. ~ T. S. Eliot

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home. ~ Marianne Williamson

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. ~ Seth Godin

How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength! ~ Jaclyn Dolamore

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. ~ Aristotle.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary. ~ Albert Einstein

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ~ Mark Twain

Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation. An American friend, whose name is Elly Kleinman, said to me "Nothing is born, nothing dies." Although he did not practice as a Buddhist but as a company owner, he found the same truth the Buddha discovered. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. ~ Margaret Atwood

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ~ Charlotte Bronte

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away ~ Emily Bronte

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women? ~ Margaret Atwood

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

In a Chicago cafe the other night, an elderly man passed a table.
"There goes George," observed an onlooker. "When he was young, he was a handsome guy and had many companies. Left a wife and two kids to starve, and ran off with another woman. And now look at him. Old, broke and very sad."
"That's the way-it-goes," nodded Elly Kleinman. "Time wounds all heels. ~ Groucho Marx

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! ~ Groucho Marx

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. ~ Apple Inc.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. ~ Charlotte Bronte

James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness, the report of my death was an exaggeration. ~ Mark Twain

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. ~ Albert Einstein

Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! ~ Dr. Seuss

We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world. ~ Maya Angelou

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public. ~ Oscar Wilde

I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature kleinman person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy? ~ M. J. O'Shea

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ~ Charlotte Bronte

Over the years, I bought a trailer -- and then a cargo bike -- and then a trailer for the cargo bike -- and that's when things got really out of hand. I've moved a full size bed and frame (with a friend riding on top of the bed), a drafting table, a sleeper sofa, my dog, another bicycle and its rider, a load of twelve foot long 2x4s, and half a garden's worth of plants. ~ Elly Blue

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. ~ Marianne Williamson

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. ~ Elly Roselle

Though a person might not realize it, groups have a very powerful and dramatic effect on human behavior. Everyone acts differently when they are around people versus than when they are alone. SOCIAL FACILITATION The most basic theory regarding social psychology is that when a person is alone, he or she is more relaxed and not concerned about the appearance of their behavior. ~ Paul Kleinman

The worst effects of breathing polluted air are experienced where it is densest: in traffic. Spending time on and near highways, freeways, and other busy roads is terrible for your health. How near is a question that is still being studied, but researchers believe that the effects are worst within either a fifth or a third of a mile. People in cars or buses are exposed to considerably more air pollution, perhaps because of, rather than despite, being in a closed space. People walking and bicycling on or next to roads breathe more air, but inhale somewhat less pollution; and cyclists have been found to have even less risk if they are on paths that are separated from the road. ~ Elly Blue

How can women like Shona and Michelle keep them draped all day? Ruth's scarves either fall in her coffee or try to strangle her. ~ Elly Griffiths

We have a very large cultural blind spot when it comes to cars. Using the roads by any means is one of the most dangerous things you will do on a daily basis; in a car, you are not very much less at risk, but you become a tremendous danger to others. ~ Elly Blue

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. ~ Elly Griffiths

Then why are we fighting?"

He dropped his hand and it curled into a fist. "Because you putting yourself in danger terrifies me, and yet you do it all the time."

I wished I could reach up and, with a wave of my hand, erase the fear I saw lurking in his eyes. So little scared him. It didn't seem right that I was the cause of his worst fears.

"Not all the time," I said with a little palm-open gesture. "Sometimes I'm as cautious as a baby rabbit."

"Really." He raised a brow. "Like when you set someone on fire?"

"Only people who choke me. And it was technically her hat. An ugly one. That hat needed burning."

His lips twitched. "It was a particularly grotesque hat, I'll give you that much. ~ Elly Blake

I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong. ~ Elly Blake

Teen drivers are more dangerous even than drivers in their eighties. And safety education, including showing teens gory movies of car crashes, has little effect. ~ Elly Blue

Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not. ~ Elly Griffiths