Asshai By The Shadow Quotes & Sayings

My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it. — Eric Swalwell

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present — Alan Watts

The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place. — Neill Blomkamp

Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms! — Anais Nin

[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal ... Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost. — Viktor E. Frankl

Because all endings have a certain a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy. — Heather Brewer

Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that. — Elizabeth Strout

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. — Patty Hearst

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now." — Gene R. Cook

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.) — Benjamin Balint

As if he sensed her need, Levi scooped her into his arms and carried her back to the rock she used for sitting. But instead of depositing her there, he tucked her closer and sat down with her in his lap. He didn't say anything, just held her. And it was perfect. — Karen Witemeyer

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here. — Marion Zimmer Bradley