Aquilina Bass Quotes & Sayings

Awake my great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes. — Alasdair Gray

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon. — Hugo Chavez

What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory. — George Saunders

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp

But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it. — Sarah Dessen

An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job! — Stephen Hawking

Just a moment.
Just 1 second, just 1 more minute, just give me another hour or maybe the weekend to think it over it's not so much it's not so hard it's all we ever ask for it's a simple request.
But the moments the seconds the minutes the hours the days and years become one big mistake, one extraordinary opportunity slipped right through our fingers because we couldn't decide, we couldn't understand, we needed more time, we didn't know what to do.
We don't even know what we've done.
We have no idea how we even got here when all we ever wanted was to wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night and maybe stop for ice cream on the way home and that one decision, that one choice, that one accidental opportunity unraveled everything we've ever known and ever believed in and what do we do?
What do we do from here? — Tahereh Mafi

Home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. — Pico Iyer

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society. — Mahatma Gandhi