Mateaki Fifita Quotes & Sayings

Your wits make others witty. — Catherine The Great

Want the reality. The moments, like the Bradbury story, when Damien lets me in enough to see a bit of his past and a piece of his heart. — J. Kenner

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing. — Richard Rohr

Bad in all the right ways. — Bella Jeanisse

For forty days, for forty nights
Jesus put one foot in front of the other
and the man he carried,
if it was a man,
became heavier and heavier. — Anne Sexton

Because I know I will never love anyone like I love you. That's what will overcome the past every time it tries to rear its ugly head." He stepped closer. "So it's either you and me or me and me, Luce. And I don't really like myself, so I hope you'll pick the you and me option. — Nicole Williams

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. — Alyse M. Gardner

ALAS," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. Translated — Franz Kafka

There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age. — Wassily Kandinsky

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. — Alix Kates Shulman

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault. — Aimee Bender