Ioachim Si Quotes & Sayings

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. — Terry Pratchett

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them ... — John Lennon

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. — Samuel Smiles

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours. — Truman Capote

Don't wait for the world to give you what you want. Go grab it yourself. — Aboobacker Amani

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company. — Loretta Lynch

What hands do I possess?
What sight!
What deliberations do I confess?
What plight! — Ashfaq Saraf

In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency. — Robert Reed

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle.

Why say no when you could say yes! — The Paper Doll

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. — Steve Hagen

Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you with tightly shut eyes, and felt like crying. My love for you was the throbbing, welling warmth of tears. That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees. This you could not comprehend. — Vladimir Nabokov