Afetos Quotes & Sayings

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source. — Trey Gowdy

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control. — Darren Johnson

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security ... In fact the true aim of government is liberty. — Baruch Spinoza

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. — Alice McDermott

Love gives. It's given. — Toba Beta

People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug. — Lesley Nicol

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. — John Dryden

Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa ... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles. — Stephen Jay Gould

So I did what any sane person would do. I jammed the pitchfork in the general direction of his foot and ran like hell for the house ... — Beth Fantaskey

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings. — Humphrey Bogart

Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part. — Constantin Stanislavski

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game — Savielly Tartakower

Black boots, said Rawlins. Aint that the shits? I always wanted to be a badman. — Cormac McCarthy