Iakovos Quotes & Sayings

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love. — Margaret Ann Courtney

We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last. — Tove Jansson

Honesty.
Sobriety.
My virginity.
No way to regain
the first two, I almost
gave away the last. — Ellen Hopkins

Nathan's mother is thinking about the body of Christ and the wings of angels. Her spirit lightens in the safety, the sanctity, of the church. Dark hair surrounds her pretty oval face. Light from the stained-glass window tints her skin. Nathan thinks about the body of the son of the farmer who owns the house Nathan's parents rented three weeks ago. — Jim Grimsley

I never try to predict the market. — Warren Buffett

I have come to love you in spite of
Do I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone? — Darin Strauss

Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation. — Hugh Price Hughes

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. — Thomas A Kempis

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile. — Matthew Henson

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. — Fanny Burney