Aaargo Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. — Elbert Hubbard

She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor. Nothing meant anything. The rooms in the house on Friary Street belonged to her, she thought; when she moved in them she was really there. In the town, if she walked to the shop or to the Vocational School, the air, the light, the ground, it was all solid and part of her, even if she met no one familiar. Nothing here was part of her. It was false, empty, she thought. She closed her eyes and tried to think, as she had done so many times in her life, of something she was looking forward to, but there was nothing. Not the slightest thing. Not even Sunday. Nothing maybe except sleep, and she was not even certain she was looking forward to sleep. In any case, she could not sleep yet, since it was not yet nine o'clock. There was nothing she could do. It was as though she had been locked away. — Colm Toibin

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands. — Joseph Parker

Rubbish!" screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!" She continued. "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it. — Neil Gaiman

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud — Marina Abramovic

Please don't allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are. — Colleen Hoover

The shaven head and the man in white pants and the black woolen — William Peter Blatty

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. — Lucille Anderson

once a kittypet always a kittypet."

-longtail — Erin Hunter

Coercion. The unpardonable crime. — Dorothy Richardson

Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values. — George Lakoff

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power - or it had found her.
Tomorrow's problems she'd take care of tomorrow. — Elizabeth Bear