Ecademyk8 Quotes & Sayings

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. — George Soros

Just like a dancer's body finds its points and an equestrian incorporates her body weight into the movement of the horse, the Christian learns how to melt her will into God's. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The sexual tension between them was becoming a tangible thing that was growing everyday to the point that it could explode and probably take out a city with the blast. — Victoria Darkins

She was the kind
To tell it like it is
To kiss and tell
To kiss and kill
To kill with kindness

She was the kind
To get things through her thick skull
To work her fingers to the bone
To work on her back
To never take it lying down

She was the kind
To lay down the law
To get down on her knees
To get up on her feet
To give an inch and take a mile

She was the kind
To stand up for herself
To sit down strike
To go to the wall
To take it to the limit

She was the kind
To take it too far
To drop off the face of the earth
To face the music
To hit rock bottom

She was the kind
To get back on that horse and ride it
To get up on her high horse
To get down to business
To turn the world upside down — Heid E. Erdrich

O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won. — Lucy Larcom

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. — Moss Hart

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. — Walter E. Williams

Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love. — Dennis Lehane

You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw — Mary Jo Bang

One cannot walk straight when the path is crooked. A BALDONI SAYING — Joanna Bourne

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust. — Russell Kirk

Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain. — Elle Casey

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. — Erica Jong