Istrati Ilie Quotes & Sayings

Please don't tell him we stole it," Passalos begged. "He isn't nice at all!" "Who is he?" Jason asked. "What god?" "I - I can't say," Passalos stammered. "You'd better," Leo warned. "No," Passalos said miserably. "I mean, I really can't say. I can't pronounce it! Tr - tri - It's too hard!" "Truh," Akmon said. "Tru-toh - Too many syllables! — Rick Riordan

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming. — Joel Salatin

It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest's aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things it is reluctant to unclasp./How the Osage orange trunks and bare limbs/glow in the scattered light like veins of fire. — Bryan Penberthy

only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren't so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself - because this moment is about to be over. — Oprah Winfrey

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars). — Plutarch

And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces? What is conscription but mass enslavement? Can anyone envision a private police force getting away with a tiny fraction of what States get away with, and do habitually, year after year, century after century? — Murray N. Rothbard

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams. — Lord Kelvin