Meakin Welcome Quotes & Sayings

Why, you know, I said, that the eyes, when a person directs them towards objects on which the light of day is no longer shining, but the moon and stars only, see dimly, and are nearly blind; they seem to have no clearness of vision in them? Very true. But when they are directed towards objects on which the sun shines, they see clearly and there is sight in them? Certainly. And the soul is like the eye: when resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul perceives and understands, and is radiant with intelligence; but when turned towards the twilight of becoming and perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking about, and is first of one opinion and then of another, and seems to have no intelligence? Just so. — Plato

When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke. — Drake

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional. — Mark McKinnon

I haven't graduated yet, because i am too busy learning. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you. — Dean Koontz

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to. — Flea

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. — Skylar Grey

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being. — Lois Lowry

But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story? — Hanya Yanagihara

He hesitated. 'Serpine used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill them. He took my family's death and he made it about me. Valkyrie, when you die, it will be your death and yours alone. Let it come to you on your own terms.' She nodded.
'Valkyrie Cain,' he said, 'it has been an absolute pleasure knowing you. — Derek Landy

Most people argue over beliefs rather than truth. — S.C. Meakin

On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument against the notion that things just happen. — Charles Frazier

Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross