Dontinos Akron Quotes & Sayings

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. — Fredrik Backman

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them. — La Monte Young

At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice.
"You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled.
"I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time? — Jennifer Crusie

Peace is simple, but it takes great courage to be simple and walk the path of peace. — Debasish Mridha

[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen.
With wonder, she smiled.
That such a room existed! — Markus Zusak

Anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office. — Edward M. Wolfe

Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'. — Jocelyn Gibb

To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, 'remembering that you, too, are a human being'. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger. — Vijender Singh