Bastiens Quotes & Sayings

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families. — Jeff Merkley

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past — Jorge Luis Borges

Huxley's Brave New World is set in an indefinitely distant future: it will not be possible for many years to say that Huxley's apprehensions have not proved justified. It is unlikely that populations will undergo genetic and environmental manipulation in the exact way that Huxley foresaw: there will never be a fixed number of predetermined strata, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon Minus Semi-Morons. But as an Italian scientist prepares to clone humans, and as reproduction grows as divorced from sex as sex is from reproduction, it is increasingly hard to regard Huxley's vision as entirely far-fetched. — Theodore Dalrymple

In summer darkness, stars in her south-facing window, she makes - or accepts - a decision in her heart. There is fear again with it, and sorrow, but also a kind of easing of disquiet and distress, which is what acceptance is said to bring, is it not? — Guy Gavriel Kay

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her. — Rocco DiSpirito

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be. — Katherine Heigl

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. — Lisa Loeb

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. — Taylor Caldwell

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles. — Grant Stoelwinder

But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary. — Augustin Misago