Ascetismo Quotes & Sayings

I must be irresistible. You can't stay away from me for more than twenty-four hours. — Catherine Doyle

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you — Amiri Baraka

Because they start with us, reach up to touch God, and still come back down to be with us. The treasure isn't at the end of the rainbow; it's that the rainbow cared enough to come back. — Katie Kennedy

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. — Ian Frazier

What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? — Elizabeth Kostova

Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely; you do know someone entirely. — Lauren Groff

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. — Mark Twain

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art. — Constantin Stanislavski

He was conscientious, he did his duty as he understood it; but he was no seaman. — Patrick O'Brian

I don't even know why you bothered to put Finnick and me through training, Plutarch," I say. — Suzanne Collins

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift. — Alexis De Tocqueville

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be. — Paulo Coelho

Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center. — Watchman Nee