14 August Short Quotes

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. ~ J. August Richards

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right. ~ August Wilson

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself ~ August Heckscher

Nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes. ~ Anne Applebaum

Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14. ~ Adam Rex

Episodes 13&14: week of August 25th-30th 2014 ~ A.S. Oren

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. ~ August Wilson

You jumped but I'm falling too. ~ August Wilson

He living too far in the past. ~ August Wilson

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married ~ August Strindberg

Everybody in a hurry to slow down. ~ August Wilson

I was born to a time of fire. ~ August Wilson

Love between a man and woman is war. ~ August Strindberg

i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!! ~ August Wilson

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right. ~ August Wilson

The hackaneers, like the captains of pirate crews, had needed skilled men and women, and someone like Lang was in short supply. He had told his hackaneer captain which family members of the Chinese Politburo to target, to steal the pictures of their mistresses and investment records, to rob and blackmail and extort until the crew's coffers had swelled with loot. Then ~ August Cole

Speaking at last becomes a vice, like
drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ? ~ August Strindberg

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of. ~ August Wilson

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's. ~ August Strindberg

I hope this leads you to where you're going. ~ August Wilson

I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps. ~ August Wilson

A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men. ~ John August

Never do anything directly that you can do by indirection. ~ August Mardesich

LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER ~ August Strindberg

If we want the business benefits that only authenticity can bestow, we must first become authentic individuals. ~ August Turak

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. ~ August Wilson

August is a wicked month. ~ Edna O'Brien

- He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE ~ August Strindberg

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it. ~ August Wilson

You die how you live. ~ August Wilson

He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Scars are the proof you're stronger than what tried to hurt you, duckling. Don't be ashamed of them ~ August Clearwing

We are walking through a field of burning bushes, of the everyday heroes God puts in our lives. ~ Chris August

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father ~ August Strindberg

In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story. ~ David Bergen

Being my lady on my arm and my slut between the sheets ~ August Clearwing

Life don't owe you nothing. ~ August Wilson

half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until ~ Jared Diamond

That, and you have quite the temper."
I play fully punched his arm. "Watch it, before you really feel my wrath. ~ August Westman

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. ~ August Strindberg

There is no greater delusion than the belief that carefully copying nature is art. ~ August Endell

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. ~ Francois Furet

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. ~ August Strindberg

From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August. ~ Andrew Card

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it. ~ August Wilson

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second. ~ August Alsina

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

The higher you rise, the dirtier it gets. ~ J.M. August

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. ~ August Bebel

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money! ~ August Wilson

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it. ~ August Wilson

Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you. ~ August Verona

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean. ~ August Wilson

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend. ~ August Bournonville

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. ~ August Wilson

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you, ~ August Wilson

Do you chase dreams, or do you actually catch them? ~ Noelle August

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. ~ August Wilson

August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."

She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm? ~ Victoria Schwab

Reason and understanding are represented as the voluntary slaves of the senses. ~ August Wilhelm Schlegel

A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar -
Everyone groaned, including August. ~ Victoria Schwab

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. ~ August Macke

I dream, therefore I exist. ~ August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned. ~ August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. ~ August Strindberg

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. ~ Gloria Swanson

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. ~ August Strindberg

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I wish I was a tree so I could reproduce asexually. ~ Sam R. August

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. ~ August Macke

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879. ~ Carl Spitteler

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. ~ August Wilson

My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August ~ R.J. Palacio

There could be oil coming up until August. ~ Carol Browner

Don't bother getting out of bed.
The world is crowded enough
without you and your big ideas. ~ Pamela August Russell

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. ~ Henry Rollins

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating. ~ J.M. August

The music is all around us, all you have to do.. is listen ~ August Rush

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself. ~ August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ... ~ August Wilson

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. ~ August Wilson

How many men who had set out with great intentions had been forced off their path by irregular and complicated love affairs. It was imperative to be on one's guard! ~ August Kubizek

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms. ~ August Weismann

Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money – you cool with that?" - Gable ~ J.M. August

August's heart seized.

He didn't … know he could have this.

Jack kissed him so carefully that August thought he would fall to pieces. Kissed him with the weight of knowing the price of risk. Then he gazed back at August like his heart was already breaking. ~ K. Ancrum

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing. ~ August Strindberg

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. ~ August Wilson

A radical is one who speaks the truth. ~ Charles August Lindbergh

PASTOR. Violence aside now, admit that he suffers from fixed ideas. DOCTOR. I think your ideas are even more fixed, pastor! PASTOR ~ August Strindberg

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way. ~ August Bebel

The nature of business is swindling. ~ August Bebel

Get used to your mortality.
It will eventually consume you
so why not pick up an addiction. ~ Pamela August Russell

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. ~ Ronnie Shakes

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60. ~ Pat Metheny

We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution. ~ August Weismann

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ~ August Wilson

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam. ~ Hans Frank

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ~ August Bebel