Ahrends John Quotes & Sayings

It's so quiet in my room that I wonder if this is what being dead sounds like. — Matthew Quick

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. — Ernest Hemingway,

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability. — Jenny Hval

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. — Larry Page

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no. — Margaret Atwood

I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won't ever have to see his retreating back. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities. — Charles R. Swindoll

Words are all we have. — Samuel Beckett

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. — John Hockenberry

The amazing thing is that throughout Scripture and history it seems God has chosen the most seemingly unlikely and unqualified people to fulfill his plan and purpose on the earth. Most often, the response of those people has been to insist on their own unworthiness. And if they don't-the people around them may do so, loudly and shrilly. And therein lies a danger: If we allow other people to tell us what we are and are not qualified to do, we will limit what God wants to do with us. — Christine Caine

Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations ... — Noam Chomsky