Autochthonous One Quotes & Sayings

It's the struggle that refines them," he explained, "the challenge. Give them too much water, sunshine, and fertile soil and they grow fat and tasteless, like a Concord grape, appetizing only when saturated with sugar and made into jelly. Or they wither and die of boredom. Like people. The best ones are survivors. Stripped of chaff, refined by struggle and hardship, they're rendered complex and potent by their very endurance and ability to thrive in spite of deprivation. — J.T. Geissinger

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds. — Stephen King

If being a sex symbol means you have lots of sex, then I am glad to be a sex symbol. But in real life I'm not. That doesn't happen. — Diego Luna

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love. — Georges Courteline

One down, fifteen to go. — Marcus Trescothick

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary. — Raphael Patai

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart. — Cindy Sherman

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come on Duchess, I'm down with you," Satin announced as she pulled a pair of rhinestone brass knuckles from her Birkin bag. "Knuckle up divas! — Lady Onyxx

life is too short to be stuck in a job you hate. Choose a career that makes you excited to wake up in the morning, energized through the day, and content when you fall asleep at night. — Joshua Dorkin

Faithful to the word given and the idea had. — Fernando Pessoa

To the dismay of anti-Semites, the Jews were never a foreign "ethnos" of invaders from afar but rather an autochthonous population whose ancestors, for the most part, converted to Judaism before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.17 — Shlomo Sand

All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. — Frederick Lenz

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack. — James Fitzjames Stephen

McCarthy succeeded because he discovered and made full use of a tradition of American journalism - that most newpapermen report the news 'straight.' This means that if a prominent person says something sensational - even if untrue - the press normally will report the statement exactly as spoken ... The press simply acts as a mirror. — William J. Lederer

God use times of adversity to revive the spirit of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita