Aspirings Quotes & Sayings

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We're not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous. — Red Army Faction

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory. — J.K. Rowling

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? — Charles Caleb Colton

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks. — Salman Rushdie

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense. — Kristin Cashore

These kids are all trying so hard to be weird. I'm genuinely weird, so I can spot the effort a mile away. — Brent Crawford

Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are. — Trevor Noah

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement. — Raymond Queneau

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The afterlife is not so much a place but rather what happens to me, to the others left behind, after Ben's life. — Sophie Hardcastle