Ischia Island Quotes & Sayings

Employment leaves you bare and empty — Sunday Adelaja

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect. — Porphyry

I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing. — Elena Ferrante

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again. — Ryan Kwanten

The guy was tall, and possessed one of those earnest faces Henry associated with middle management. — Stephen King

There's hardly anybody who doesn't hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn't hate. — Jonathan Franzen

When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass indeed into their world. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Andrews threw the convertible in gear, and I trailed a hand over the bright red finish. Probably fresh off the lot - unlike my little hatchback, which had been factory assembled in the same decade witches came out of the broom closet. — Kalayna Price

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living. — Shannon L. Alder