Akkus F R Quotes & Sayings

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde

I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense. — David Levithan

The Lord, in his kindness
He gives me what you always wanted
He gives me more- — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Recklessness didn't work out for me in the end."
- Sand dan Glokta — Joe Abercrombie

As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted, of a long-dead German economist were bringing biblical calamity to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. — Martin Amis

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

They made me so smooth like porcelain. Inside I was broken glass. Every fragment was piercing me sharp. At every breath, I felt I was imploding. — Sonia Rao

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. — Marlene Dietrich

Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant. — Mooji

She wasn't afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.
'I'm afraid of committing myself,' she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life. — Paulo Coelho

All of us were stuck to the surface of a ball, incidentally. — Kurt Vonnegut

If the dominant person is unable or unwilling to see or admit their wrong, then the person who is being mistreated must do a very hard thing... they must "step up" and confront the behavior as it occurs. You will be guided best and with the most clarity by intentionally bringing the LORD into each situation. What I mean is this: the confronting spouse must raise their concerns in light of what God thinks about the behavior and the kind of behavior He desires instead. — Carey Green