Sapphics Quotes & Sayings

I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need. — Tim McGraw

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. — Jerome K. Jerome

But there is risk.
But the risk is worth it. — Dave Eggers

Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses - one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment. — Joyce Carol Oates

Except for those few Christians who hold that Christians should have nothing to do with government and hence cannot attempt to influence it, the rest - the great majority - have only themselves to blame if their government begins to undermine the institutions and values they cherish. — Harold O.J. Brown

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. — Friedrich Hayek

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. — Robert Breault

they just had big bones rather than stand up an' say - I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.' An' he was right. I've bin an idiot. I'm not botherin' with — J.K. Rowling

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. — Fulton J. Sheen

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25 — Carlo Collodi

Bowed down by greif,
I had resolved
To be moved no more-
But tears, it seems,
Are not like minds. — Joseph K. Yamagiwa

Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English. — Marilyn Hacker