Aprietan Quotes & Sayings

Any life ending in death is essentially pointless. — Gary Shteyngart

Their respect for the mystery
the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery. — Stephen King

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life. — Lauren Ambrose

As a man's knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholely what he must do. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best — Ela Bhatt

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing. — Henry Ford

While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights. — Michael Huffington

I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid ... Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours ... Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else ... — Katherine Anne Porter

I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It's an earthling epidemic; it's not isolated in the black community. — Jussie Smollett

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends? It isn't. I hope, wherever she is, she has that in her mind. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box. — Patricia Ryan Madson

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently. — Tracy Spiridakos

Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know. — David Levi Strauss

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent. — Roy Wood

a deep smothering emptiness — Bell Hooks