Jtksm Quotes & Sayings

All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are. — Alice Walker

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience. — Neil MacGregor

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. — Publilius Syrus

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey. — Carew Papritz

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan. — Catharine MacKinnon

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio. — Anne McCaffrey

My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius — Richelle E. Goodrich

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious! — George MacDonald

What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth. — Robert Frost

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward. — Matt Holliday

Decision: I refuse to achieve "success" at the expense of my life. The two - life success and genuine fulfillment - will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, "Now I can finally start living! — Richie Norton

The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways. — Helen Oyeyemi