Afkapsi Quotes & Sayings

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles. — Terry Orlick

Paranoid isn't a bad thing to be when the whole world is out to get you! 03-24-2011 — Jan Thomas

Home is where we have a history. — Terry Tempest Williams

I gave a silent prayer of thanks that I didn't seem to be lousy. I had probably been too filthy for any self-respecting louse to take up residence. — Patrick Rothfuss

I think that translating is the most profound, most intimate way of reading. A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, two texts, two writers. It entails a doubling, a renewal ... It was a way of getting close to different languages, of feeling connected to writers very distant from me in space and time. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written. — Barbara Casey

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people. — Mike Pence

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write. — George W. Bush

Jung Min's palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks! — Kim Hyung-jun

And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar