Aslaksen Quotes & Sayings

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. — David Gemmell

I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody. — Mitch Hedberg

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. — Aeschylus

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation. — David Benatar

For the main object of his representation is the word itself, and specifically the fully signifying word. Dostoevsky's works are a word about a word addressed to a word. The represented word comes together with the representing word on one level and on equal terms. They penetrate one another, overlap one another at various dialogic angles. As a result of this encounter, new aspects and new functions of the word are revealed and brought to the fore, — Mikhail Bakhtin

Go to the place called barren,
Stand in the place called empty.
And you will find God there. — Joan Sauro

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them. — Darren Criss

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind. — Peter Levitt

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame — Aimee Mann

If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period." — Aphex Twin

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants. — Vicente Fox

Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off. — David Cannadine

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. — Albert Camus

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself. — Thomas A Kempis