Asnapp Quotes & Sayings

Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love. — Elif Shafak

We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilization and he will remain there for untold generations to come. — Michael Talbot

It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings. — Terry Jones

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better. — Dean Ornish

Totally agree! The fiction reading process is basically a human communication on an emotional, intellectual and spiritual level between reader and writer, transcending space, time, cultures, societies and religions, through the medium of the narrative and characters. Language matters in the sense of aesthetics and embellishment, but not in a rigid scientific way. — Alice Poon

You must have been going very fast."
"I was, until I hit the fence. — Anthony Horowitz

The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole ... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose. — Louis J. Halle

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed. — Rachel Sklar

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? — Terry Pratchett

His convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole — Ayn Rand

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. — Bernard Berenson