Astratta Quotes & Sayings

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Listen," I said. "It really was luck. I've got a knack for classic arcade games. That's my specialty." I shrugged. "Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK?" She — Ernest Cline

The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

90. The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God, even when others said You can't do that. — Pauline Creeden

We spring from the Land, we go back to the Land. The Land sustains our life and in all ways we are connected, body and soul to Her. It is the Creator's Creation. It knows us. It loves us. — Rene' Donovan

Smile, it's contagious — Rose English

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. — David Cronenberg

This was raw. This was primal. This was real. — Angela Quarles

He sidestepped down the alley and into another one connected to a small garage, where a raccoon with matching black eyes just like his own halted in mid-step next to a trash can.
They stared at each other, not moving or making a sound.
'There there, friend. I am not here to interrupt your nightly activity just as you are not here to interrupt mine.'
They continued their separate ways, who would be caught and who would not remained a mystery. — Jackie Sonnenberg

Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity. — Herman Dooyeweerd

Raithe enjoyed a good campfire. Something comforting about the dancing light, the smell of smoke, and the way his face and chest were hot but his backside cold. He sensed a profound meaning in this duality as well as in the enigma of flickering flames. The fire spirit spoke in spitting sparks and shifts of choking smoke, but the meaning of each remained a mystery. Everything in nature was that way. All of it spoke to him
to everyone
in a language few could understand. What secrets, what wisdom, and what horrors might he learn if only he knew what it all meant. — Michael J. Sullivan

A man without a past, he thought, can write any future. — John Katzenbach

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar

Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no! — Charles Dickens

Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix