Assensus Quotes & Sayings

Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name. — Doug Stanhope

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody. — Richard Simmons

After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time. — Tim O'Brien

Sadness clings to you like a cat unwilling to release its claws, so you embrace it and stroke it until it is content to sleep in your heart, until awakened by a sound, a smell, or a memory...but it never leaves you. — D.S. Mixell

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt. — Camille Paglia

The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What inflation really does is to change the relationships of prices and costs. — Henry Hazlitt

It is quite wrong to assume that poor people are generally unwilling to change; but the proposed change must stand in some organic relationship to what they are doing already, and they are rightly suspicious of, and resistant to, radical changes proposed by town-based and office-bound innovators who approach them in the spirit of: "You just get out of my way and I shall show you how useless you are and how splendidly the job can be done with a lot of foreign money and outlandish equipment. — Ernst F. Schumacher

All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. — Julie Murphy

We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us; — Amish Tripathi

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them. — Maggie Stiefvater