Yefremo Quotes & Sayings

Afraid

We cry among the skyscrapers
As our ancestors
Cried among the palms in Africa
Because we are alone,
It is night,
And we're afraid. — Langston Hughes

Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art. — William Styron

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others. — Leo Buscaglia

When I look back, no matter how hard I try I can see clear break between one phase and another. It is a seamless flow - although flow is too strong a word. More a sort of busy stasis, a sort of running on the spot. Even that was too fast for me, however, I was always a little way behind, trotting in the rear of my own life. In Dublin I was still the boy growing up at Coolgrange, in America I was the callow young man of Dublin days, on the islands I became a kind of American. And nothing was enough. Everything was coming, was on the way, was about to be. Stuck in the past, I was always peering beyond the present towards a limitless future. Now, I suppose, the future may be said to have arrived. — John Banville

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. — George Bernard Shaw

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution. — James Daly

Let holy preparation link hands with patient expectation, and we shall have far larger answers to our prayers. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. — Mary Oliver

At the moment of our salvation, we, too, like Christ, die and are buried. But ours is a spiritual rather than a physical death. Our sin nature, our "old self," dies with Christ. And just as Jesus was raised from the dead into new life, we, too, are raised from spiritual death to a new spiritual life. — Wendy Blight

I'm fucking my teacher." "Jesus — Pam Godwin

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. — Neal Shusterman

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church. — Jon Bon Jovi

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did. — David Nicholls