Asterios Danmachi Quotes & Sayings

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? — Walter Scott

It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I write the words God put on my mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away. — Charisma Carpenter

I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren. — Lykke Li

We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves. — Gillian Flynn

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything. — Kim Il-sung

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere. — Alfred Stieglitz

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful. — Samuel Johnson

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. — Harriet Beecher Stowe