Askya Shorts Quotes & Sayings

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. — William Hazlitt

Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow "unfair" to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives. — Carl Safina

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue. — Grace Llewellyn

Curses aren't passive things. They'll fight back. — David Levithan

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world. — Cindy Sherman

Man,then, rather than by what he he is,or by what he has,escapes the zooological scale by what he does,by his conduct.hence it is that he must always keep watch on himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding. — William Godwin

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog. — Jay Neugeboren

I write music, really, to make myself feel better. — Jenny Lewis

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool. — Adolf Hitler

Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love. — Brian Morton

I had worn that gold ring for nearly thirty years; token of vows taken, forsaken, renewed, and at last absolved. A token of marriage, of family; of a large part of my life. And the last trace of Frank - whom, in spite of everything, I had loved. Jamie — Diana Gabaldon

I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do. — Stieg Larsson

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. — Arthur Bloch