Aodhan King Quotes & Sayings

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. — Madame Roland

Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. — Susan Cain

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise. — Bryce Courtenay

I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch. — Woody Allen

The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me. — Barbara Windsor

Problems are a part of life in a fallen world, and they are necessary part of it, necessary to our testing and to our growth. — Rousas John Rushdoony

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. — Jack Prelutsky

When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him. — Rain

I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject. — David Lipsky

What fascinates me - and what serves as a central theme of this book - is why we make the choices we do. What separates us from the world we have and the kind of ethical universe envisioned by someone like Havel? What prompts one person to act boldly in a moment of crisis and a second to seek shelter in the crowd? Why do some people become stronger in the face of adversity while others quickly lose heart? What separates the bully from the protector? Is it education, spiritual belief, our parents, our friends, the circumstances of our birth, traumatic events, or more likely some combination that spells the difference? More succinctly, do our hopes for the future hinge on a desirable unfolding of external events or some mysterious process within? — Madeleine K. Albright

But it was not in any way a coincidence that today, the day of culmination of the project, the great day of unveiling, the day that the Heart of Gold was finally to be introduced to a marveling Galaxy, was also a great day of culmination for Zaphod Beeblebrox. It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the presidency, a decision that had sent shock waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy. Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President? Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas. — Douglas Adams

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything. — Jim Butcher

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity. — Richard M. Weaver

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe