Ells Quotes

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

Well, you need to hear about money, because you ain't gonna have no love and joy and peace until you get some money!

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Be who you are and be that well.

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!