Akolita Quotes & Sayings

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty. — Joyce Carol Oates

Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread. — Jim Harrison

Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men. — Christopher Titus

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology. — Kage Baker

Despite the enormous pressures in Hollywood, Kim Kardashian never set out to fit in, and it's this exact nonconformity that drives our global obsession with her. — Jeetendr Sehdev

I turned toward his army. It was now roughly one hundred and ninety-nine to one. I did the natural thing. I charged them. — Rick Riordan

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me. — Bei Dao

If you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners — James Patterson