Ausonia Quotes & Sayings

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. — Gorgias

Euthanizing an animal that has wiggled into the corners of my heart is a terrible task, and never gets easier despite how desperately I have striven to avoid that outcome, or how clear the need may be. — Chris Sparks

this talk will be a private one with Jonas. — Lois Lowry

The seven big dogs are Eleggua, Obatalla, Chango, Oshun, Yemaya, Babalu Aye, and Oggun. Each — Kathy Reichs

I don't keep any copy of my books around ... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. — Ludwig Bemelmans

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did. — Tullian Tchividjian

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle? — James Russell Lowell

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. — Robert Green Ingersoll

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. — Anne Rice

The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone. — Rumi

What's the nature of your emergency?'
oh, shit! Just come! There are dead people out here! — Charlaine Harris

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy. — Jay Kay

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. — Jaron Lanier