Xairetismoi Quotes & Sayings

I've driven the past 10,000 miles

because I feel closer after every mile

Even as I sit here day after day alone

it's your silhouette that surrounds me

and that's enough to get me to tomorrow. — Austin V. Songer

I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was. — Eliza Griswold

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down. — Alex Haley

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way. — Anita Brookner

I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black ... the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin

Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world. — Bokar Rinpoche

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there. — Wendy Davis