Aksamitki Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be. — Laurence Yep

It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it. — Noam Chomsky

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. — Martin Jacques

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. — Marcus Annaeus Lucan

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace? — Thomas Aquinas

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. — Julia Quinn

Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it. — Russ Shafer-Landau

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist ... It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door. — Thomas Merton

Where is God to be found? In suffering or in rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses? Where does suffering lead him? To purification or to bestiality? — Elie Wiesel

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head ... — Tony Judt