Axinos Quotes & Sayings

Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom. — S. Kelley Harrell

History is full of surprises. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. — Confucius

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. — Donald Shoup

You are not the first female to strike me, my mate did it often. She grew testy at time.
Like perhaps when you opened your mouth ... — Laurann Dohner

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. — Jesse Jackson

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets) — Stephen King

I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural style of the capitalist era, a subject which he said had fascinated him since his own student days, speaking in particular of the compulsive sense of order and the tendency towards monumentalism evident in law courts and penal institutions, railway stations and stock exchanges, opera houses and lunatic asylums, and the dwelling built to rectangular grid patterns for the labor force. — W.G. Sebald

As we peer into society's future, we
you and I, and our government
must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening — Eminem

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies. — Jane Chen

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do. — Randolph Bourne

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? — William Shakespeare

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone — Mackenzie Crowne