Dag Aabye Quotes & Sayings

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff. — Bhagat Singh

There are times when Los Angeles is the most magical city on Earth. When the Santa Ana winds sweep through and the air is warm and so, so clear. When the jacaranda trees bloom in the most brilliant lilac violet. When the ocean sparkles on a warm February day and you're pushing fine grains of sand through your bare toes while the rest of the country is hunkered down under blankets slurping soup. But other times, like when the jacaranda trees drop their blossoms in an eerie purple rain, Los Angeles feels like only a half-formed dream. Like perhaps the city was founded as a strip mall in the early 1970s and has no real reason to exist. An afterthought from the designer of some other, better city. A playground made only for attractive people to eat expensive salads. — Steven Rowley

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell. — Gayle Forman

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. — Agesilaus II

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. — Benjamin Cardozo

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner. — Ruth Hurmence Green

I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that he was beautiful. I weep for him because whenever he lay on my banks and looked into my waters, I could see my own beauty reflected in his eyes. — Paulo Coelho

I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different. — Katy Evans

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly reinforced every time one of his acquaintances identifies him by baseball or inquires about his status. How much of our identity and worth is wrapped up in our job title or the one we are aspiring to? — Gary Moore

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting... — Stuti Dhyani