Afkebooks Quotes & Sayings

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. — Barack Obama

Feelings come in packs, D. Let one loose and they all want to run together. — Jane Seville

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location. — Jeff Bezos

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. — John Milton

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! — William Shakespeare

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof. — Sandra Bullock

There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death. — Frank Smythe

Congress is going to meet with you or without you, I tell them. Don't turn away in disgust and leave those decisions to someone else. You don't like politics today? Grab the wheel of history and steer us to a better place. Run for office. Be a strategist or policy aide. Work for a government agency or a nonprofit. Become a thoughtful, probing journalist. Get in the arena. Help shape the world in which you're going to live. At a minimum, be the engaged citizen a healthy democracy demands. — David Axelrod

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Music is my first love. — Mandy Moore

In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My — Carol J. Adams