Astnx Quotes & Sayings

For thousands of years, it had been nature
and its supposed creator
that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.
But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs ... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves. — Alain De Botton

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard

I will confess!" shrieked Teufel, "I will confess!"
"Excellent," said Glokta brightly.
"Excellent," said Severard.
"Etherer," said Practical Frost. — Joe Abercrombie

You fucking raped me with emotional orgasms. Repeatedly. I'm just giving you a physical one, why am I the criminal now? — Lucian Bane

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. — Aimee Bender

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential. — Martin Edwards

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old. — Anna Paquin

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. — Rima Fakih