Assemany Quotes & Sayings

Keeping a secret isn't the same as being a liar. — Suzanne Young

Authors often say that their novels are like their children, and you want your novel, just like your children, to reflect well on you. When it goes out into the world, you hope that it will make you proud. But like a parent, an author must learn that her novel has needs of its own, and they are not the same as the author's.
Yes, you want your son's behavior toward women to reflect a loving relationship with his mother. However, if a woman is compelled to think about that relationship whenever they're in bed together, something has gone very very wrong. — Howard Mittelmark

Keep your fiends close and your enemies even closer. — Sun Tzu

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates ... the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke) — Yoko Ono

It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions. — Spencer A. Rathus

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like. — Michaela Dorfmeister

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves ... To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save. — Simone Weil

Are you saying that you need an attorney? For what? As far as I know, being a dick isn't against the law in any country. — Elle Lothlorien

It's one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don't need validation. — Carlos Wallace