Hektikus Quotes & Sayings

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction. — A.C. Gaughen

What is the point in talking to people you like when you know you will never going to be someone number one? That you will never be the one? When you know they will get bored of you after a while? Even when you are still smiling at their replies.
I want to make someone feel the way I feel, to live like the world is going to end tomorrow. I want to make someone feel alive. I want to make someone's heart sing and make their eyes shine, when they look at me. I just want someone to believe in me, the way I believe in them ... — Rhyan Roads

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process. — Taylor Swift

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of. — Jane Austen

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period. — Dinaw Mengestu

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. — Gustav Heinemann

You can learn from anyone even your enemy. — Ovid

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. — Linda Ronstadt

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing. — Evelyn Lauder

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither? — Edward Hallett Carr