Akimirka Quotes & Sayings

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. — Neil Young

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. — Tom Stoppard

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be. — George Eliot

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too. — R.C. Sproul

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress. — Glen Duncan

Grayson Dashwood.
Those two words had just ruined what was turning into a good morning. — Elaine White

I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad. — Howard Zinn

Teach the art of living well. — Seneca The Younger

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. — Levon Helm

No, I promised him I wouldn't fight a giant." "So you obey the letter of the law and not the spirit," she said. "Yes." My teeth finally stopped chattering. I loved my turtleneck. I loved my jacket. I loved my boots. Mmm, wonderful warm boots. "How come when I do that, you chew me out?" "Because you don't do it well enough to get away with it." Julie blinked. "What kind of move was that, at the end?" "It's from Escrima, a Filipino martial art. I'll show you when we get a minute, but you will have to practice, because it has to be done really fast for it to work. — Ilona Andrews

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish. — James Jones

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell

our feet
are grape-squashed in memories

our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips. — Sanober Khan