Astalos Switch Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes ... Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when ... things you enjoy ... start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it. — Michelle Obama

When he is not broken, Raphael said, he is a shooting star caught midfall. — Nalini Singh

After all, hope is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. — Kwame Nkrumah

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger

Obviously, approximately 1/3 of Republican voters do have a perfectly reasonable grasp on reality. Like myself, they accept that the planet is more than 5,000 years old, that Iraq was not behind 9/11; they accept that bigotry is unproductive and usually caused by ignorance, and they prefer facts to myth. But they still vote Republican. — Patrick Andendall

I go up to my room to put the finishing touches on Margot's scrapbook and listen to only the slow songs from Dirty Dancing, — Jenny Han

Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least delay
To trace the backward way.
For when youth passes with its giddy train,
Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,
Pain, pain forever pain;
And none escapes life's coils.
Envy, sedition, strife,
Carnage and war, make up the tale of life. — Sophocles

It is a sin to be a mocker. — William Shakespeare

Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong. — Sandra Chami Kassis

True love meant sharing odd food cravings. I so believed that. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said. — Tahereh Mafi

I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet. — Tina Fey

Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it. — Charles Bukowski