Ashbournes Quotes & Sayings

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
— Jim Rohn

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! — Jay Baer

You ever wondered what it's like to be me?
I always wondered what it's like to be you.
Quick, lets change clothes
before someone else knows.
So what's your name? "

E.J.B. — Esteban Jesus Bordallo

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. — David Hare

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face. — Chris Abani

It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he didn't believe a word of it. He obviously thought that the story was meant to be true, but suspected that it was invented. Which, of course, is just what it is. The bishop was dismissing the fiction because he thought it was fiction. — Terry Eagleton

When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street. — Richard Simmons

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. — Margaret Thatcher

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are. — Thomas Merton

More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of stars in the sky, Baru wanted in that moment to speak the truth.

But she had no tongue for it. She had burnt all her truth away. Alloyed it into the machine — Seth Dickinson

He who honestly instructs reverences God. — Nazr Mohammed

Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. — Bill Maher

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. — Jose Saramago

When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you. — Leonard Jacobson

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing. — Adam Schlesinger