Soyeux Quotes & Sayings

Teddy looked at him directly for the first time.
Are you a poet?' he asked.
A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?'
I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' "
- Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories) — J.D. Salinger

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally — David Nicholls

Every morning is a fresh breath and blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like bustling around Paul's kitchen. And I like it even more when he walks up behind me and wraps his arms around me while I'm standing at the stove. He pretends like he's going to try to steal a piece of chicken from the pasta, but he presses his lips to my shoulder and lingers, his hot breath blowing across my neck. I reach up and wrap my hand around his neck and bring him down so I can kiss him. Then he pops the chicken into his mouth and grins. "That's pretty good," he says, nodding. I roll my eyes. "Glad you like my chicken." "Oh, I wasn't talking about the chicken," he says, letting his eyes roam up and down my body. — Tammy Falkner

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future ... it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. — John Piper

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates

In order to be able to accomplish anything new, the first thing we need to do is to teach ourselves... not to be so afraid. — Jose N. Harris

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? — Sarah Bernhardt

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. — Orson Scott Card

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings. — F. Sionil Jose

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton