Ausonius Editions Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in. — Jesse Eisenberg

Nonviolent ideals were cheap to hold if you were a scientist, living inside the Protego bubble cast by the police officers and soldiers whose actions you had the luxury to question. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian. — A.C. Gaughen

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. — Miguel De Cervantes

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it enigmatic and it had never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?But at this moment, the mystery seemed greater than usual, for these were words he hadn't even known yesterday morning. — Pascal Mercier

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it. — Pattiann Rogers

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. — Charles Dickens

It's plainly obvious that Jay is about as homosexual as Gerard Butler in the movie 300. — L. H. Cosway

A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one. — Alex Flinn

I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together. — Christopher Castellani

Address the people you seek, and them only — Claude C. Hopkins

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. — Maria Montessori

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power . It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism , to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel ), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of " anarchism " (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century). — Jacques Ellul