Afra Quotes & Sayings

I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me. — Ian Anderson

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages. — Warren Buffett

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there? — Blaise Pascal

It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them — Anne McCaffrey

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods? — Dahlia Lithwick

Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread. — Willy Ronis

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo. — Mary Karr

We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

Governments, which have a regard to the common interest, are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen. — Aristotle.

When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine...you know you are loved. — John Lyons

When the occasional stranger approaches me at a party to say, "Hey, you're Felicia Day. Let's talk about that comic book you were tweeting about last week!" it's the greatest thing in the world. Because it saves me from having to stand in the corner awkwardly, drinking all the Sprite, and then leaving after ten minutes without saying good-bye to my host. — Felicia Day