Selasi Bake Quotes & Sayings

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. — Judy Biggert

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites. — Mitch Albom

The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it, he said. — Kate Chopin

The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me. — Mervyn Peake

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. — Daniel Keyes

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. — Karl A. Menninger

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power. — Thomas Frank

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life — Nicholas Sparks

All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. — Geddy Lee