Lilias Haiku Quotes & Sayings

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John Of Salisbury

Life is not about the shadow you cast on your enemies but the shade you provide to your friends — Jeff Loveness

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If you are interested and feel you can meet all of the qualifications below, please write in detail and attach a full length photograph.
HEIGHT: Between 5'2" and 5'6"
WEIGHT: 135 pounds maximum
ATTRACTIVE: "Just below Hollywood" standards
Plenty of Personality and Poise
GENDER: Female
MARITAL STATUS: Single, Not Divorced,
Separated, or Widowed
RACE: White
AGE: 21-26 years old
EDUCATION: Registered Nurse or Two Years of College
VISION: 20/20 without glasses
Must be a US citizen and available for training within 6 months.
If you feel you qualify
— Judy Blume

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. — Francois Hollande

He loved the ocean for deep-seated reasons: because of that yearning for rest, when the hard-pressed artist hungers to shut out the exacting multiplicities of experience and hide himself on the breast of the simple, the vast; and because of a forbidden hankering - seductive, by virtue of its being directly opposed to his obligations - after the incommunicable, the incommensurate, the eternal, the non-existent. To be at rest in the face of perfection is the hunger of every one who is aiming at excellence; and what is the nonexistent but a form of perfection? — Thomas Mann

To camp is a mode of seduction ... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing. — Susan Sontag

What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we're reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages. — Phil Pringle

We must inspect each part, and we have to do so while relying on other parts. But the result of that inspection may, if we are coherent and imaginative, be perfectly seaworthy. — Simon Blackburn

He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived. — Harry Mulisch

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr. — Derek Tangye