Asperses Quotes & Sayings

To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle. — Haruki Murakami

Fear has no power over those who face it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

McGahern still lives on and works a farm in Leitrim, and friends say that even though he has held high profile academic posts round the world as a visiting professor he remains essentially a countryman.

Last term he taught in an upstate New York college, but seeing him in the soulless urban grid of downtown Syracuse wearing an old tweed flat cap and long black overcoat, he could have been in an Irish agricultural town on market day as he casually engaged strangers on the street to ask for advice on finding a decent restaurant. Friends say he has extraordinary confidence in who he is and where he's from - he behaves pretty much the same way wherever is and whoever he is with. — John McGahern

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against — Jean Chretien

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997. — Clement Freud

Perhaps it was the lure of marrying a king. Or the vain hope you might be the one to stay the course and win the heart of a monster. — Renee Ahdieh

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
Against temptation. — John Milton

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything
except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. — Anton Chekhov