Leisinger Ashley Quotes & Sayings

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. — Josh Billings

The fish is my friend too ... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought — Ernest Hemingway,

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine ... which is bullshit. — Gloria Steinem

Every challenge that comes your way is an opportunity for you to do something remarkable. — Farshad Asl

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. — Ernest Istook

They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.
With this consciousness, and with physical pain besides the terror, he must go to bed, often to lie awake the greater part of the night. Next morning he had to get up again, dress, go to the law courts, speak, and write; or if he did not go out, spend at home those twenty-four hours a day each of which was a torture. And he had to live thus all alone on the brink of an abyss, with no one who understood or pitied him. — Leo Tolstoy

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. — Jon Hamm

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique. — Cyril Connolly

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action. — Eric Hoffer

At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt. — Malcolm Fraser

The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. — Thomas Merton

I don't do quagmires. — Donald Rumsfeld

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance. — Gary L. Thomas

I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong. — Neal Shusterman

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again. — Tracy Pollan