Jorrik 98 Quotes & Sayings

I'm not new to this just got to get use, to this I have another account I have to fix this. — Shawanda Carter

Lord knew, her brood were wicked enough that they didn't need the help of mistletoe. It was in their blood, and sadly, not a trait taken from her husband's side.

-Lady Rochester. His Wicked Seduction — Lauren Smith

Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions. — David Mitchell

That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said. — Sara Shepard

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy. — Howard Schultz

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The Old Man at the Wheel
Measured against the immeasurable
universe, no word you have spoken
brought light. Brought
light to what, as a child, you thought
too dark to be survived. By exorcism
you survived. By submission, then making.
You let all the parts of that thing you would
cut out of you enter your poem because
enacting there all its parts allowed you
the illusion you could cut it from your soul.
Dilemmas of choice given what cannot
change alone roused you to words.
As you grip the things that were young when
you were young, they crumble in your hand.
Now you must drive west, which in November
means driving directly into the sun. — Frank Bidart

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. — John Grierson

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden. — Dennis Hastert

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. — Pema Chodron

She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same? — Kameron Hurley

Culturally, however, Sicily had great advantages. Muslim, Byzantine, Italian, and German civilization met and mingled there as nowhere else. Greek and Arabic were still living languages in Sicily. Frederick learnt to speak six languages fluently, and in all six he was witty. He was at home in Arabian philosophy, and had friendly relations with Mohammedans, which scandalized pious Christians. He was a Hohenstaufen, and in Germany could count as a German. But in culture and sentiment he was Italian, with a tincture of Byzantine and Arab. His contemporaries gazed upon him with astonishment gradually turning into horror; they called him 'wonder of the world and marvellous innovator'. — Bertrand Russell

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. — Cornel West

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. — Thomas A Kempis

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon