Affatato Asphalt Quotes & Sayings

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him. — Herbert Spencer

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing. — Rene Descartes

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere. — Hamilton Leithauser

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record. — Paul McCartney

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere. — Andrew Dominik

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. — Douglas Coupland

Ordinarily my mother drew no strength from scorn, — Philip Roth

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists." — Farah Diba

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate. — John Climacus

Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for. — Elissa Gabrielle

When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy. It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it's possible to connect with some[one] else even though they're very different from you. — Barack Obama