Solya Skya Quotes & Sayings

Well, I'm expecting great things from you, young man!"
"Th-thank you, Brother Cyrus." As soon as he released my shoulders, I hurried over to the glass wall where Kiernan was sitting, frowning out at the ocean like it had done something to piss him off. — Rysa Walker

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. — Nat King Cole

Do you think they're still there?'
'Where?'
'Greece. Egypt. The islands. Those places. Do you think if you walked where those people walked you'd see the gods?'
'Maybe. But I don't think people'd know that was what they'd seen. — Neil Gaiman

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man
whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. — Jane Goodall

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young. — Irwin Shaw

When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness. — Debasish Mridha

A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my tankard against his. Beer splashed. We raised the tankard and pretended to take much bigger gulps than we did. — Ilona Andrews

We spend most of our life bleeding from a blade that cuts from the inside out. . . I'm tired of bleeding. — Michael Knost

What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradition perceives as rooted in a fear of being vulnerable in a future old age, so that one hoards possessions in the present. But most often our depression is unexpressed anger, and it manifests itself as the sloth of disobedience, a refusal to keep up the daily practices that would keep us in good relationship to God and to each other. For when people allow anger to build up inside, they begin to perform daily tasks resentfully, focusing on the others as the source of their troubles. Instead of looking inward to find the true reason for their sadness - with me , it is usually a fear of losing an illusory control - they direct it outward, barreling through the world, impatient and even brutal with those they encounter, especially those who are closest to them. — Kathleen Norris

Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for it, He turns it into a punishment. — Al-Hasan Al-Basri

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens — Tina Fey

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. — Pindar

Our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole. — Plato

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful. — Fawn Weaver

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes. — Kevin Spacey