Assiduo Quotes & Sayings

You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. — Markus Zusak

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. — George W. Bush

My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People ask me what my favorite WWE era is. It's now, because I'm living it. — Chris Jericho

Your thoughts and your words define your life. Think positively and affirm positive words to enrich your life positively. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. — Eric Clapton

It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing. — Yvonne Strahovski

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. — Geoffrey Nunberg

The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.] — Ovid

The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. — Helen Keller

We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me. — Barry Zito

Mastery passes often for egotism. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When she treads on my grave and feels as if she's trampling on that doting old man's bones, my spirit will still be alive, feeling the whole weight of her body, feeling pain, feeling the fine-grained velvety smoothness of the soles of her feet. Even after I'm dead I'll be aware of that. I can't believe I won't. In the same way, Satsuko will be aware of the presence of my spirit, joyfully enduring her weight. Perhaps she may even hear my charred bones rattling together, chuckling, moaning, creaking. And that would by no means occur only when she was actually stepping on my grave. At the very thought of those Buddha's Footprints modeled after her own feet she would hear my bones wailing under the stone. Between sobs I would scream: It hurts! It hurts! ... Even though it hurts, I'm happy - I've never been more happy, I'm much, much happier than when I was alive! ... Trample harder! Harder! — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone. — Joseph Addison