Askeladden Quotes & Sayings

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings. — Andre Gide

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared. — David Mamet

Re-upped and went back because when he comes home the first time everybody says that he isn't the same person and that they don't recognize him, and he sees that it's true: they're all afraid of him. He comes home to them from jungle warfare and not only is he not appreciated but he is feared, so he might as well go back. He wasn't expecting the hero treatment, but everybody looking at him like that? So he goes back for the second tour, and this time he is geared up. Pissed off. Pumped up. A very aggressive warrior. — Philip Roth

Fred always goes with Daphne and Shaggy always sticks with Velma."
"Well then, in that case, I'm Scooby. — Peter Clines

Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality. — Rebecca Solnit

Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter — Jessica Day George

I'd rather die than fade away — Jon Bon Jovi

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator. — Desmond Tutu

by: Sober Solutions Ltd Duplication Prohibited — Lilly Scrivens

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp. — Lauren Oliver

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo. — Clive James