Heleks Quotes & Sayings

He was like a young tiger, all muscle and passion, and she wanted to ride him
not to tame the beast, but to feel for a small moment all of his vitality. — Elizabeth Hoyt

For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent. — Adam Nicolson

I did not hinder it, for generous deed should not be checked by cold counsel. It — J.R.R. Tolkien

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind. — E. Lockhart

The reality of forever reminds us to prioritize eternity in our hopes for our children. But before we extend an eternal perspective to others, we must be hoping in Christ. Too often, my hope is in my ever-changing circumstances. I say things like, "I really need the baby to take his nap this morning," which is a fine thing to say and a fine thing to look forward to. But if, come lunchtime, the nap hasn't happened, and I'm so emotionally wasted by it that it ruins my afternoon, then I've probably put more faith in that nap than in the never-changing circumstances of the gospel. — Gloria Furman

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing. — Cormac McCarthy

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy. — Charles Fleischer

When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it. — Francois Fenelon

By dying young, a man stays young forever in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his light shines for all time. In his musings during the past few weeks Vadim had discovered an important and at first glance paradoxical point: a man of talent can understand and accept death more easily than a man with none - yet the former has more to lose. A man of no talent craves long life, yet Epicurus had once observed that a fool, if offered eternity, would not know what to do with it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom. — Matt Taibbi

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living. — Alex Ebert

Nothing's ever real until it's real. — George A. Romero

We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need. — Kelley Armstrong

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it. — Dory Previn

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically. — Eric Andre