Asdal Chester Quotes & Sayings

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties. — Lord Chesterfield

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me. — Donna Tartt

She is still learning how wars keep score. — Hannah Moskowitz

You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays ... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else. — Nick Hornby

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love. — Frederick Lenz

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived! — Wallace Stegner

You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source ... Breathin'! — Walt Kelly

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else. — S.A. Tawks

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. — David Graeber

Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
"Yes."
"I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
"I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
"I did wait until I was outside before I threw up. — Megan Whalen Turner

As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain. — Alfie Kohn