Aktvendim Quotes & Sayings

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. — David Mitchell

My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything. — Lucy Alibar

With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw. — Mark Ruffalo

I try to imagine what type of girl Connor would seek, but she seems unfathomable
like a hazy picture with only her brain showing. — Becca Ritchie

By definition, you can't experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don't die.
I just become increasingly unlikely. — Robert Charles Wilson

A balanced scoreboard needs to provide the balanced view of business progress; perhaps it also has the "unbalanced" nature to do prioritization. — Pearl Zhu

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. — Akio Morita

Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea. — Franz Kafka

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. — Khalil Gibran

On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the need to pretend to consult in order to maintain the appearance that the wishes of the actual inhabitants of Egypt somehow mattered. — Scott Anderson

Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader. — Jackson Radcliffe

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams