Find Me Aciman Quotes & Sayings

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually. — Leonid Brezhnev

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public. — Toba Beta

New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for romance - romance with life, with masonry, with memory, sometimes romance with nothing at all. This longing goes out to the city and from the city comes back to us. Call it narcissism. Or call it passion. It has its flare-ups, its cold nights, its sudden lurches, and its embraces. It is our life finally revealed to us in the most lifeless hard objects we'll ever cast eyes on: concrete, steel, stonework. Our need for intimacy and love is so powerful that we'll look for them and find them in asphalt and soot. — Andre Aciman

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back. — Andre Aciman

Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring. — Andre Aciman

Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long. — Andre Aciman

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick. — Aldous Huxley

I'm going to have to work out even more now tomorrow to make up for all the potatoes and bread. Okay. I feel bad. That was a lie. I'm not going to work out at all. That sounds just awful. — T.J. Klune

God's Word will never fall into disrepair. But here's what happens when we don't travel on it: We fall into disrepair! — David Jeremiah

Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; — Lao-Tzu

Can I have my knife back?' Meaning, can I have my knife back. I don't care whether this man seems like he only goes after age appropriate penis; I won't be taking any chances. And I won't be going any farther thank the juvie center parking lot with him either. I put the run in runaway. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Acting meant so much to me. — Brendan Coyle

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. — Tony Kaye

Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. — Thomas Huxley

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. — Alexandre Dumas

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. — Archie Panjabi

Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike. — Marlon James

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils. — Martin Luther

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was ... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical. — Bill Gates

If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome. — Andre Aciman