Asconia Quotes & Sayings

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world. — Matt Mullenweg

In the second photo I am thirty years old. My face has hardened. The jaws are accentuated. The mouth is bitter and mean. I look like a hoodlum in spite of my eyes, which have remained gentle. Their gentleness is almost indiscernible because of the fixity of gaze imposed upon me by the official photographer. By means of these two pictures I can see the violence that animated me at the time: from the age of sixteen to thirty. — Jean Genet

The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my primal mother and has come down to me. — Ilchi Lee

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter. — Edward Albee

It requires a constant effort to keep people worried about inconsequential issues and unconcerned with important matters. — Robert Kroese

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. — John Trudell

I know what I need to know, like, who my enemies are. — Rick Riordan

The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don't think I should throw all of that hard work back in their faces. — Terry Pratchett

While we all grow and mature and change from that awkward little worm we were in high school, it is still a pretty consistent indicator of who we become as adult butterflies. High school sets a tone for how the next decade of your life plays out, good or bad. It is the first set of steps in your journey. If you want to know who you were as a person during this hormonal time, refer to your yearbook. You will find a theme and you will see a pattern. Most definitely, you will notice these themes and patterns carried on into your twenties and so on. Take those signatures serious. — Jennie Hoffer

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono

The fact that (respectable) women began to wear 'attractive' nightwear only after the introduction, in the early eighties of last century, of the practice of birth-control, has an obvious implication. In the days of unlimited birth-rate the feminine nightdress was markedly unappealing: perhaps a calculated discretion. — C. Willett Cunnington

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. — Natalie Babbitt

Everybody should have true love, and it should last as long as your life does. — John Green

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents. — Clarence Darrow