Arilena Quotes & Sayings

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? — Thomas Mann

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things. — Gottfried Leibniz

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me
and I didn't hear it. — Steven Wright

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character. — Jack Dee

Just as Stalin used alcohol to keep his subordinates divided, fearful, confused, and off balance, so too the Soviet leadership continued a longstanding autocratic tradition of utilizing vodka to keep society in check: drunken, divided (atomized), and unable to mount a challenge to its power.36 The communists, in particular, knew this well. — Anonymous

If morality truly stemmed from an all-powerful deity, it would not change over time. — Armin Navabi

One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to — Gillian Flynn

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard. — Dan Fogelberg

I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me and that's ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it's time to move on - it's time to evolve as well and I think that should be inspirational to other people. They shouldn't feel stifled and feel like oh we can't grow up, we can't move on - change is a good thing. — Adrienne Bailon

You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity. — Mooji

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands. — Jay Weatherill

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it. — Michael Marshall Smith

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. — Martin Feldstein