Astalsi Quotes & Sayings

I fear we have become a society more interested in writing the quote of another, than living the lesson, and creating a quote of our own. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age. — Thomas Szasz

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. — Nikita Khrushchev

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed - thereafter, their lives could only get better. — Brandon Sanderson

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. — Paulo Coelho

I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. — Cory Doctorow

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. — Louisa May Alcott

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it. — Hugh Hefner