Inkinen Associates Quotes & Sayings

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world. — Arthur Conan Doyle

But I will stretch my toes so that they touch the rail at the end of the bed; I will assure myself, touching the rail, of something hard. Now I cannot sink; cannot altogether fall through the thin sheet now. Now I spread my body on this frail mattress and hang suspended. I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged. All is soft, and bending. Walls and cupboards whiten and bend their yellow squares on top of which a pale glass gleams. Out of me now my mind can pour. — Virginia Woolf

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient. — Seneca.

Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or boosterously congregated. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire

If things went according to the death notices, ... the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels without one's having been aware of it. Pure love, which in reality is to be found so seldom, shines on all sides in death, and is the commonest thing of all. — Erich Maria Remarque

The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain," explains a god. "And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free. — Charles Seife

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily. — Brad Goreski

Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse still, in covetousness, they will come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly ... be not extortionate ... . Do not love gold and silver, do not hoard them ... . Have faith. Cling to the banner and raise it on high. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Just say, "It happened, but it's over," and get on with the ordinary stuff of family and life. — David Mitchell

I myself find waiting more tiring than action. — Winston Churchill

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — John Green