Alika Williams Quotes & Sayings

Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?
Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them? — Gail Devers

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The worst fact is better than the best opinion. — Matshona Dhliwayo

They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don't have enough money to run their shops, to give people enough homes or food.
They have guns that can shoot out an eyeball from hundreds of yards away, and people who want to shoot an eyeball out from hundreds of yards: yet they turn both eyes blind to the problems humanity face. — Craig Stone

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it - orange-blossoms, in an English winter! — Sarah Waters

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are! — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

poor families in this neighbourhood. She has a large acquaintance, of course professionally, — Jane Austen

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism - its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. — Michael Pollan