Asinasanas Quotes & Sayings

I get worried sometimes that people are saying 'Why is she on television - is it because of Survivor?' That people are saying, 'She got here the easy way.' But I have been working hard all these years, and I figured I needed to move forward and embrace it, respect it and perfect it. If I didn't, then everybody would lose. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for life's preservation and continuance; we all desire a more perfect life, complete happiness, the fulfilment of our dreams and ... ..

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable. Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what's desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread. The Romantic malady is to want the moon as if it could actually be obtained. — Fernando Pessoa

Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill. — Yuri Orlov

I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return.
The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat. — Lauren Oliver

Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you. — Ryan Robbins

If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit. — Dexter Palmer

And it's not because I'm tortured
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade. — Anna Akhmatova

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. — Vandana Shiva

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. — Emily Giffin

Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen. — Israelmore Ayivor

It's better to make a difference than to make a
point. — Andy Stanley

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it. — Hugh Laurie

To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion. — Bhakti Charu Swami