Aschner Reflex Quotes & Sayings

Pardon me I've got nothing to say. — George Carlin

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea
that conserves it; ideas only save races. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Differences between the conduct of the multitude and the conduct of the princes do not derive from differences in their nature, that being the same in both (though if there be some superiority either way, it will be found on the side of the people); rather, they derive from differences in their respect for the laws under which they live. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small. — John Hickenlooper

I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.' — Natalie Dormer

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it. — Timothy Ferriss

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty. — Bill Ayers

Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier. — Elizabeth Nelson

There is a weird power in a spoken word. — Joseph Conrad

She knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding the inessential and the essential alike, making use of the stolen pieces and memories, retreating to the lost moments of other people's lives. — Yiyun Li

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny. — Anne Lamott

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. — Louis J. Halle