Assauer Quotes & Sayings

I try to make the best of what I have as life is short — Foley Western

Elephants in all the worlds zoos
in old age yearn
until one morning
they say
we will set off on a journey
carrying hidden the pain that will never return
to the places where we were happy — Mario Payeras

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting. — Geronimo Pratt

Prayer is the best study. It blesses the pleading preacher and the people to whom he ministers. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. — Corita Kent

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of. — Orson Scott Card

Our modern microscopes, scanners, and sensors have disabused us of most of the old fanciful notions about the brain's function. But the brain's strangely remote quality - the way it seems both part of us and apart from us - still influences our perceptions in subtle ways. We have a sense that our brain exists in a state of splendid isolation, that its fundamental nature is impervious to the vagaries of our day-to-day lives. While we know that our brain is an exquisitely sensitive monitor of experience, we want to believe that it lies beyond the influence of experience. We want to believe that the impressions our brain records as sensations and stores as memories leave no physical imprint on its own structure. To believe otherwise would, we feel, call into question the integrity of the self. — Nicholas Carr

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind. — P.G. Wodehouse

We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely. — Andre Breton