Astrea Internet Quotes & Sayings

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it. — Jason Calacanis

The small words hurt the most. — Kris Harte

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red. — Andre Brink

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in. — Robert Teeter

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them. — Benjamin Franklin

The God who is - the I am who I am - cannot act apart from love! — Wm. Paul Young

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. — Elia Kazan

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent. — Johan Cruyff

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself. — Roland Barthes

Work - especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class - no longer seems germane to our novelists' apprenticeships and, not coincidentally, is no longer easy to find in the fiction they produce. Whether one finds this scarcity something to worry about or simply a fact to be noted probably says a lot about one's class origins and prejudices. — Gerald Howard

Because when I dream, I feel no fear,
And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self. — Nikki Rowe

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. — Gail Godwin

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. — Salman Rushdie

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing. — Mitch Albom

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind. — John Arlott