Ashgrove Woods Quotes & Sayings

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid. — Mason Cooley

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. — Barack Obama

Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly - not through words and received ideas. It was flexible and receptive to new information. Retaining a memory of this Original Mind, we cannot help but feel nostalgia for the intensity with which we used to experience the world. As the years pass, this intensity inevitably diminishes. We come to see the world through a screen of words and opinions; our prior experiences, layered over the present, color what we see. We no longer look at things as they are, noticing their details, or wonder why they exist. Our minds gradually tighten up. We become defensive about the world we now take for granted, and we become upset if our beliefs or assumptions are attacked. — Robert Greene

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light? — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. — Pope Paul VI

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth. — Henning Mankell

My romances were all pleasant and brief. I cannot say why brief, except to state the obvious: that I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make a long habit of my company. — Patrick Rothfuss

If you're lonely when he's around, happiest when he's sad, and angry when he's overjoyed, get a new life. Without him. — Ace Antonio Hall

To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute

I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe. — Cesar Romero