Wakile Franklin Quotes & Sayings

Alma learned that her father drank out of bottles in the evening, and that those bottles sometimes contained danger (raised voices; banishment), but could also contain miracles - such — Elizabeth Gilbert

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. — Will Rogers

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. — John Lothrop Motley

Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we? — Dave Eggers

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him. — Delta Burke

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. — Sting

He was pretty sure he hadn't dozed off as a snake. Usually, he slept like a dog. — Rick Riordan

I write poetry in order to live more fully. — Judith Rodriguez

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. — Thomas Hobbes

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour. — Charles Spurgeon

She had to stay alert, ready to chivvy any of the hulking beasts who tried to slow down or escape, but now the herd had settled into a steady, drumming rhythm. This — Erin Hunter

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. — Friedrich Schiller

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play. — J. Paul Getty

God doesn't make things difficult for us. Do you want to know what the truth is? Look in the Bible, and you'll see that Jesus describes Himself not only as the truth, but the way and the life as well. — Monica Johnson

Conversation. In Laches, he discusses the meaning of courage with a couple of retired generals seeking instruction for their kinsmen. In Lysis, Socrates joins a group of young friends in trying to define friendship. In Charmides, he engages another such group in examining the widely celebrated virtue of sophrosune, the "temperance" that combines self-control and self-knowledge. (Plato's readers would know that the bright young man who gives his name to the latter dialogue would grow up to become one of the notorious Thirty Tyrants who briefly ruled Athens after its defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.) None of these dialogues reaches definite conclusions. They end in aporia, contradictions or other difficulties. The Socratic dialogues are aporetic: his interlocutors are left puzzled about what they thought they knew. Socrates's cross-examination, or elenchus, exposes their ignorance, but he exhorts his fellows to — Plato