Akamigas Quotes & Sayings

Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognized it.
I knew I should make myself get up,
write it down, but it was late,
and I was exhausted from working
all day in the garden, moving rocks. — Dorianne Laux

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service. — Angela Merici

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a "green great dragon." He showed it to his mother who told him that you absolutely couldn't have a green great dragon, and that it had to be a great green one instead. Tolkien was so disheartened that he never wrote another story for years.
The reason for Tolkien's mistake, since you ask, is that adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist. — Mark Forsyth

Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited. — Rhonda Byrne

Every time you give your word, you're putting your honor on the line. — Frank Sonnenberg

If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary. — Jerry Vlasak

Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing. — Anna Hamilton

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it. — Mother Teresa

There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention. — Carrie Jones

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton