Ahiolani Quotes & Sayings

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is. — Brenda Shoshanna

I have more care to stay
than will to go. — William Shakespeare

Does she know I feel immobile and fixed, lost in her? — Anais Nin

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn. — Rod Coronado

I am writing history, and I can't be there. — Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence — John Paul Warren

Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore. — Christine Quinn

There's something very wrong with this world, and it isn't just the wars going on in Asia or the Middle East. — Paulo Coelho

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well. — Roger Waters

We are warmed by the fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. — Thomas Merton