Asarol Quotes & Sayings

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man. — John W. Campbell Jr.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around. — Maya Angelou

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! — Anthony Trollope

If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fear tugs at me and I'm falling.
I grab at the mattress, dig in with my fingers, flop onto my stomach, hold tight. Press my face into the pillow so hard it hurts. The quilt twists like it wants to smother me.
I can't scream out loud, but there has to be some release. I kick my feet against the mattress in a muffled frenzy, legs flying fast and hard enough to carry me miles away. And when it's done, nothing's changed. I'm still stuck right here. — Rachel M. Wilson

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible. — Brenda Fassie

Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer. — Debasish Mridha

And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight. — Alexander Chee

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. — Epictetus

She was thinking she needed to post a letter in the Lonely Hearts column in the Silver Town Gazette: She-wolf seeking male wolf who believes in ghosts. No others need apply. — Terry Spear

There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of us are led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. If every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel's load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love's burden. — Alain De Botton

The less affluent must be able, at least in theory, to catch up with the more affluent. Hence politics remains without substance, a realm from which the crucial dimensions of life, the core values, are excluded.42 Who, then, can criticize this situation? — Morris Berman

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. — Alison Bechdel

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy. — Angela Merkel