Akstone Quotes & Sayings

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
there if you want to keep writing good code. — Karl Lehenbauer

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all. — John Boyne

It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory."
Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking. — Alexandra Bracken

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything. — McKayla Maroney

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. — Nikki Giovanni

In every one of these cases, the police ignored the suspect's tentative and mealymouthed expressions of interest in a lawyer, persisted in their questioning, and successfully managed to get him to make some damaging statements (not necessarily a confession) that could be used to help convict him, and the courts concluded that such statements were admissible against the suspect because he had not made a clear and unequivocal request for a lawyer. — James Duane

Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity. — Narendra Modi

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas. — David Bowie

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you. — William Zabka

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight. — Rodney Dangerfield

Anyone would be lucky to be involved with you. I'm lucky you kissed me. So fucking lucky. — Chanel Cleeton