Jakobinija Quotes & Sayings

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk. — Christine Quinn

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are. — Italo Calvino

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church. — Nancy Pearcey

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris. — Donald Clark

Logic is a game, came the memory of his father's voice. Let's see how you play — Marie Rutkoski

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer. — Leland Stanford

We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib. — Ron Atkinson

I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I didn't want this crap, I didn't ask for this crap, so why the hell was I neck deep in so much crap? — Jaymin Eve

These were things she hadn't felt wile being kissed in a long, long time. Exciting things. Especially when he lowered his head to kiss her again, this time on the throat. That's when she felt that her heart might burst from happiness. — Meg Cabot

One who will offer you his coat when you're cold or cut you a bloom from his favorite rosebush just because he was thinkin' about ya while he worked. One who'll take your sass in good humor and sass you back when ya need it. — Karen Witemeyer