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“I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.”
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“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”
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“What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.”
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“The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.”
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“For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.”
Source : "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.
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“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”
Source : Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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“It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”
Source : "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.