Aysia Bates Quotes & Sayings

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. — Jodi Picoult

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love — Michael Ondaatje

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show. — Jake Roberts

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep ... — Kristine Carlson

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally. — Zainab Salbi

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it. — Seth Godin

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important. — Wayne Rooney

Of course, as always, there is an arbitrary, invisible fence in place. You can't see it, but it will always keep you out. It will always encircle happiness and keep you out. — Leila Sales

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. — Alexander Wilson

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria. — Jane Hirshfield