Azwar Associates Quotes & Sayings

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis. — David Ramsey

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration. — Scarlett Johansson

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes! — Jordin Sparks

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love. — Alain De Botton

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me. — Brandon Sanderson

It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them. — Bonnie McFarlane

I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm. — John Green

Crappy mall food cures everything. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Prejudice is opinion without judgement. — Voltaire

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I? — Alison McGhee

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way. — Joseph Campbell