Akman Quotes & Sayings

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness. — Georges Canguilhem

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. — Aristotle.

There is a frontier-line in human closeness
That love and passion cannot violate
Though in silence mouth to mouth be soldered
And passionate devotion cleave the heart.
Here friendship, too, is powerless, and years
Of that sublime and fiery happiness
When the free soul has broken clear
From the slow languor of voluptuousness.
Those striving towards it are demented, and
If the line seem close enough to broach
Stricken with sadness ... Now you understand
Why my heart does not beat beneath your touch. — Anna Akhmatova

It moved me that he would say he'd kill for me, except that he might actually mean it and then I was still moved but then I felt guilty about it. — Laurelin Paige

For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Outward appearances mean everything. — Simone Elkeles

The horses are talking ... just listen. — Monty Roberts

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin

Every time I see her I get a hard on from to there. — Theda Hudson

Now I say that I know the meaning of my life:"To live for God, for my soul." And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such, indeed, is the meaning of everything existing.(12-7) — Leo Tolstoy

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. — James Goldman

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion. — Thomas Jefferson

As we sin, so do we suffer, — George R R Martin

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese. — Natalie Massenet

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants. — Gary Hume