Jakyr Quotes & Sayings

Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.'
'What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.'
'This is America. It's different. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What am I? And where am I? And why am I here? — Leo Tolstoy

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence
can never retract.
by this, and only this, we have existed. — T. S. Eliot

Silence is more profitable unto thee than abundance of speech. — Ptahhotep

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. — John Selden

Before you know it, you'll be smiling at her across the breakfast table."
"I don't smile," Cahill said, though he was having to fight his amusement.
"So you'll be scowling at her across the breakfast table. That isn't my point. — Linda Howard

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?' — Winston Churchill

Only a very careless father would be inclined to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I suppose I'm about to act like the disreputable uncle who everyone fears to leave the boys with because he encourages them to drink distilled spirits, stay up late, and do more than merely kiss girls."
"Uh ... what?" Mags replied, utterly bewildered now.
"I am going," Jakyr said, leaning toward Mags, his eyes dancing with laughter, "to tell you how to please a woman."
Max thought for a moment his face that caught fire, because surely it couldn't burn like that without some outside help. — Mercedes Lackey

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country. — Rumi

It's swimple, really! — Nichole Hansen

But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them. — Barbara W. Tuchman