Ekirik Quotes & Sayings

She turned the water scalding hot and scrubbed her face until it hurt, but the eyes still looked wrong. She tore off her clothes and stepped into the shower; but it was not enough.
The dirt was on the inside. — John Hart

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question. — Adam Clarke

In John's Gospel, Jesus asks Peter three times to feed his flock, to feed it with his love, and he prophesies to him: "When you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go" (John 21:18). These words are addressed first and foremost to those of us who are pastors: we cannot feed God's flock unless we let ourselves be carried by God's will even where we would rather not go, unless we are prepared to bear witness to Christ with the gift of ourselves, unreservedly, not in a calculating way, sometimes even at the cost of our lives. — Pope Francis

The past is useless
to me now:
an old suitcase
with mould in the lining,
heavy even when empty. — Robyn Sarah

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society. — Keith Stanfield

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. — Dean Koontz

Maintain your health. Be joyful. Do not force yourself to do things you cannot do."2 — Thich Nhat Hanh

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty. — W. Somerset Maugham

Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and she lay still, become contained by him, sleeping in him as lightning sleeps in a pure, soft stone. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm not going to let you walk away thinking I didn't love every second I spent touching you. Kissing your pretty mouth. — Tessa Bailey

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was. — Laurie Notaro

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken — Jackie Chan

We all have the need to feel special. — Janet Jackson

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. — S.M. Stirling

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda