Acestes Quotes & Sayings

The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in. — Seymour Hersh

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment. — Paloma Faith

Do you understand the stakes involved?"
"Other than the financial ones?"
"What other kind of stakes could there be?"
Matthew sent him a sardonic glance. "Your daughter's heart. Her future happiness. Her - "
"Bah! People don't marry to be happy. Or if they do, they soon discover it's hog-swill."
Despite his black mood, Matthew smiled slightly. "If you're hoping to inspire me in the direction of wedlock," he said, "it's not working. — Lisa Kleypas

Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films - like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction. — Brian Evenson

It feels like I've fallen in love with you for the first time all over again — Jay McLean

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. — Julie Bishop

You can take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear. -- Mark Twain — Alexandra Nouri

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. - Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns — Dean Koontz

Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists. — Dean Spade

If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through. — A.W. Tozer

Your test had cheese meteor questions? - Bex to Liz. — Ally Carter

But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty. — Margaret Fuller

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea. — Winston Churchill