Charmides Greek Quotes & Sayings

Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland — Rainer Maria Rilke

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us. — Asa Hutchinson

Whuf added the dragon. — Rick Cook

Gregory was in the walls, in the crawl space between the board floor of the cabin and the bitter ground. He was gone, but he was everywhere. He was on the small pantry shelf where canning was removed. The air of the cabin still held Gregory. He filled and expanded every dark corner, tight, to exploding. He was jammed between her legs so that no matter how she moved, he was inside of Agnes. She couldn't shake him from her vestments or burn him from the stove. He nested in the books, of course. She couldn't stand to touch their pages. He was in the sweet, fragrant wood Mary Kashpaw chopped, split, and piled. In the cloth of curtains, the clasp of doors, he waited. She turned the handle, let the light in, and he came, too, solid and good and alive. — Louise Erdrich

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim. — Oliver Sykes

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read

There is more difference within the sexes than between them. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1% ... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process. — Bernie Sanders

Some places[/people] are like that: they can suffer through wars, persecutions, and indifference, but they still remain sacred. Finally someone comes along, senses that something is missing, and rebuilds them. — Paulo Coelho

He lifted his gaze. "Just to be clear, you're not using your mind powers on me right now, are you?" She blinked. "Of course not." "Just checking." Then — Marissa Meyer

Discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. — W.E.B. Du Bois