Frederick Aiken Quotes & Sayings

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. — Gloria Steinem

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Chuck Close

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. — Saint Augustine

In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me. — Katherine Jenkins

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him. — James McAvoy

Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or a pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is grape juice and that robe of purple a lamb's fleece dipped in a shellfish's blood; and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is the attrition of an entrail and a convulsive expulsion of a mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kind of things they really are. You should adopt this practice all through your life, and where things make an impression which is very plausible, uncover their nakedness, see into their cheapness, strip off the profession on which they vaunt themselves. For pride is an arch-seducer of reason, and just when you fancy you are most certainly busy in good works, then you are mostly certainly guilty of imposture. — Marcus Aurelius

Every year in this country, people are evicted from their homes not by the tens of thousands or even the hundreds of thousands but by the millions. — Matthew Desmond

Emotions that are forced always end in tragedy — Jennifer L. Armentrout

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. — Louisa May Alcott

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries. — Richard Neal

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all. — Sadie Jones

You're more wicked than you ever believed, but at the same time more loved and accepted than you ever dared to hope. On — Timothy Keller

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right. — Irving Howe

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster. — David Ogilvy