Ascendants Afterthoughts Quotes & Sayings

Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace. — Ban Ki-moon

I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil - I don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place - and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other. The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so to speak, and not be contaminated. — Joseph Conrad

The news networks and the local TV stations all led with the same footage. An obviously moved, very pretty young woman with blond hair and alert blue eyes looking up. Eyes widening. Stumbling a little as she pushed back her chair and went around the table.
Shaky cameras turning too fast, following her as she ran to a boy at the back of the room who pushed through the press of people to reach her.
The embrace.
The kiss that went on for a very long time. — Michael Grant

Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it. — Anita Desai

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity. — Deborah Ann Woll

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. — Penelope Lively

The consumption of ice cream (pints per person) and the number of murders in New York are positively correlated. That is, as the amount of ice cream sold per person increases, the number of murders increases. Strange but true! — Deborah J. Rumsey

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. — Geoffrey Rush

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women. — Sakena Yacoobi

Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain — Bob Dylan