Afaik Stands Quotes & Sayings

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed. — Howard Schultz

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back. — Margaret Atwood

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus. — Karen Russell

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat. — Walter Dean Myers

I think. I am. I will. — Ayn Rand

When there is hate, there is passion,
When there is passion, there is flame,
When there is flame, there is love. — T. Haque

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah". I think there's something wrong with my headphones. — Russell Brand

But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define. — Susanna Clarke

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does. — Neal Shusterman