Apross Quotes & Sayings

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. — Iain Pears

Never underestimate a droid, — Alan Dean Foster

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing. — Anna Todd

A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick"). — Tali Sharot

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back. — Amitabh Bachchan

Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. — Fernando Pessoa

We find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate. — Sandra Steingraber

I'm single but interviewing. — Billy Joel

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that. — Bono

Not so many moons ago, he had been able to run to the summit of the temple without losing a single breath; however, now he felt like an old camel that laboured under a load of corn. Years pass so quickly, and the dreams of youth are lost forever. — Alan Kinross

Let your body take care of you. — Deepak Chopra