Albanikes Quotes & Sayings

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. — Seneca The Younger

Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-nine nos but one yes.

Jori accepted his mother's high five. He and his brother would have to switch schools. Jori didn't care. He switched schools all the time. Between seventh and eighth grades, he had attended five different schools - when he went at all. At the domestic-violence shelter alone, Jori had racked up seventeen consecutive absences. Arleen saw school as a higher-order need, something to worry about after she found a house. — Matthew Desmond

Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad. — Sunday Adelaja

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury. — Mary Jo Putney

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry. — Teresa Medeiros

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves. — Thomas Hutchinson

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. — Patricia Highsmith

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use — Emma Thompson

No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land — Harriet Martineau

Everyone is beautiful ... it just takes the right person to see it — Singh Amendra