Ajusto Spede Quotes & Sayings

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind. — Christopher Hitchens

The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches. — Veronica Roth

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. — Rick Bragg

The spirit partly lies in physical body,
the rest of it is still waiting to be refitted. — Toba Beta

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. — Samuel Johnson

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do. — Jane Green

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself. — Estelle