Aschenbachs Syndrome Quotes & Sayings

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds. — Jim Pattison

I just didn't want to shoot other people. — Norman MacCaig

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't. — Bill O'Reilly

You're right," he says. "I've been crazy for years. If you stay with me for long, you will be, too. If you see enough of this, and understand enough of what it all means." He lets out a long sigh. — N.K. Jemisin

Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic. — Del Suggs

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight. — Peter Ackroyd

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work. — Peter Roskam

Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors, is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever — Piero Ferrucci

Turn off the light!

Who?

Not me,

but you! — Kim Da-Jeong

His name is Henry DuPont. He is two years older than you, very handsome, and wealthy. You'll make a good match. She said simply, as if she were choosing goose over chicken for supper. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke ... but yeah, I mean it. What do you think? — Danielle Steel

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it. — Linda Greenlaw

At this the last of my anger oozed all out of me; and I found myself only sick, and sorry, and blank, and wondering at myself. I would have given the world to take back what I had said; but a word once spoken, who can recapture it? I minded me of all Alan's kindness and courage in the past, how he had helped and cheered and borne with me in our evil days; and then recalled my own insults, and saw that I had lost for ever that doughty friend. At the same time, the sickness that hung upon me seemed to redouble, and the pang in my side was like a sword for sharpness. I thought I must have swooned where I stood. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage. In such hopelessness, the general vote will be for the supernatural. It's dusk in the second Age of Reason. We were wonderful, but now we are doomed. — Ian McEwan

I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind. — Timothy Ferriss