Aelins Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse. — Julian Casablancas

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. — Arthur C. Brooks

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth. — Clarence Darrow

There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught. — Woody Allen

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. — Barack Obama

Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession's practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they're entering is a hospital's fifth floor, a psych ward, where brisk good cheer would amount to a kind of gloating. This is why doctors on psych wards so often wear a vaguely fake frown of puzzled concentration, if and when you see them in fifth-floor halls. And this is why a hospital M.D.
who's usually hale and pink-cheeked and poreless, and who almost always smells unusually clean and good
approaches any psych patient under this care with a professional manner somewhere between bland and deep, a distant but sincere concern that's divided evenly between the patient's subjective discomfort and the hard facts of the case. — David Foster Wallace

To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience. — David Bayles

Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England. — G.K. Chesterton

But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her. — Margaret Atwood

The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it, — Stewart Stafford

It's clear. We do not make one big jump to success. We get there one step at a time. An excellent plan is to set monthly quotas for accomplishment. — David J. Schwartz

I don't want to sew.
How else will the buttons get onto the coat? — Diane Samuels

A genius is a grownup that remained a kid. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana