Being Astuteness Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it is understandable that in days of serenity the heart seeks it own friction - whether in defense against, or in ignorance of, the ultimate blow that awaits it. — Lauren Acampora

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting. — Lisa Randall

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world. — Augusto Pinochet

My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration. — Ezra Pound

An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living. — Harold Klemp

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen. — Sarah Dessen

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness. — Augusto Roa Bastos