Atony Quotes & Sayings

Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I'm as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else. — Thom Browne

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing ... [such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit. — Tertullian

I'll see you in Hell first." Deirdre threw back her head and laughed. Her floor-length white hair twitched around her ankles. "This is Hell, Broc. — Donna Grant

A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness — Ottessa Moshfegh

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery. — Dean Ornish

She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither. — Tess Gerritsen

I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness — Anthony Powell

What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker. — Lindsay Pearce

At least it feels that way standing here with you." He closes his blue eyes and breathes in. When he opens them again, he says, "Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest." I — Jennifer Niven

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way. — Victoria Moran

Cleopatra: Oh, Charmian, Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he or sits he?
Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horse, for wott'st thou whom thou mov'st?
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
Or murmuring "Where's my serpent of old Nile?"
For so he calls me. Now I feed myself
With most delicious poison. Think on me,
That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black
And wrinkled deep in time. Broad-fronted Caesar,
When thou wast here above the ground, I was
A morsel for a monarch. And great Pompey
Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow.
There would he anchor his aspect, and die
With looking on his life. — William Shakespeare

Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence, it is nothing, he is old and does nothing but forget? And would he nod as though he too were saying, Yes, it is nothing, I am old and do nothing but forget? But who would know that he said, I do nothing but remember? — Alan Paton

all that time I save in body hair removal I devote to revolution — Janet Fraser

I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was. — Carrie Fisher