Dissidia 012 Kefka Quotes & Sayings

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics. — Pat McCrory

Just because you don't know the exact country or tribe that your ancestors descended from, doesn't mean they aren't apart of your ethnic make-up. Black history didn't begin in slavery, we have a beautiful royal dynasty that began around 830 CE (CE is the correct term to use, most people know this as AD). My visits to Nigeria gave me a sense of pride to be connected to such a rich history that will never be taken away from me.-part of an excerpt from my second book, Ebony Jones — Ebony Jones-Kuye

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family. — Bill Drayton

. . . literature is not frivolous pseudo-statements but takes its place among the acts of language that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name. — Jonathan Culler

You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore. — Colleen Hoover

[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work. — Yugo Nakamura

A Writer

'Interesting, but futile,' said his diary,
Where day by day his movements were recorded
And nothing but his loves received inquiry;
He knew, of course, no actions were rewarded,
There were no prizes: though the eye could see
Wide beauty in a motion or a pause,
It need expect no lasting salary
Beyond the bounds' momentary applause.

He lived for years and never was surprised:
A member of his foolish, lying race
Explained away their vices: realised
It was a gift that he possessed alone:
To look the world directly in the face;
The face he did not see to be his own. — Philip Larkin

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. — Shirley Henderson

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal. — Paulo Coelho

Vronsky meanwhile, despite the full realization of what he had desired for so long, was not fully happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is in the realization of desires. — Leo Tolstoy

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't. — Mario Van Peebles