Daraka Miles Quotes & Sayings

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution. — Saul Bellow

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. — Anthony Trollope

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' — Pink

If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover, — Cassandra Clare

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real — Thomas Merton

Just hearing crowds along the course cheering and ringing cowbells for you can make you want to keep racing. — Dana L. Ayers

My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that. — Miranda Kerr

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.

Ali — Davis Miller

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. — Gustave Flaubert

I am a college-educated American. In all my years of formal schooling, I never read Plato or Aristotle, Homer or Virgil. I knew nothing of Greek and Roman history and barely grasped the meaning of the Middle Ages. Dante was a stranger to me, and so was Shakespeare. The fifteen hundred years of Christianity from the end of the New Testament to the Reformation were a blank page, and I knew only the barest facts about Luther's revolution. I was ignorant of Descartes and Newton. My understanding of Western history began with the Enlightenment. Everything that came before it was lost behind a misty curtain of forgetting. Nobody did this on purpose. Nobody tried to deprive me of my civilizational patrimony. But nobody felt any obligation to present it to me and my generation in an orderly, coherent fashion. Ideas have consequences - and so does their lack. — Rod Dreher

Shay strolled alongside me, humming 'Here Comes the Bride,' until I punched him in the kidney. — Andrea Cremer

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood