Achrony Quotes & Sayings

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. — Nelson A. Miles

To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works. — Seneca.

Seth rubbed his nose against Dom's shoe in a silent plea. The leather was so soft. So unlike Dom's heart. — K.A. Merikan

I talk so much about sex that girls just want to meet me. — Joe Rogan

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. — Shirin Ebadi

I would have to hide in the jungle and live wild amoung the pandas — Diane Messidoro

There were streets named Mulberry and Orchard and Cherry, streets bright and tart, streets with a color and a taste. — Leslie Parry

Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you. — David Livermore

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded. — Roland Barthes

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. — Napoleon Hill

...with no morning the day is sold. — Philip Levine