Aaent Quotes & Sayings

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. — Jane Austen

When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream. — Renzo Rosso

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities. — Guru Nanak

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. — Marshall McLuhan

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. — Maria Montessori

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay ... but I'm not going to. — Katie Aselton

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship. — Milan Kundera

You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns. And in this real world, nobody had more or better guns than America. If the good-hearted ideals of humankind were to prevail, then they needed men who could make it happen. — Mark Bowden

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy. — Marcus Brigstocke

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen. — Henry David Thoreau

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities, — Artur Davis