Astutia Quotes

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife. ~ Leah Ward Sears

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. ~ Leon Bloy

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. ~ Barbara Januszkiewicz

Surround yourself with positive messages, inspire yourself on a daily basis, and come to grips with your own power of determination. Then you will become unstoppable in achieving positive life changes for yourself and your family. ~ Jean Charest

The rest of my life I will spend in unconditional loving and caring. ~ Debasish Mridha

Mindless activity can't experience joy. ~ Jonah Books.com

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage. ~ Jacob M. Appel

I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do. ~ Martin Amis

Aye, without a doubt, he adored her. He would protect her and love her until he took his last breath on God's beautiful earth. What more could a woman ask for in a man? Strength, honor, good looks were a welcome change to the men she'd known before the ~ Suzan Tisdale

An emigres artistic problem: the numerically equal blocks of a lifetime are unequal in weight, depending on whether they comprise young or adult years. The adult years may be richer and more important for life and for creative activity both, but the subconscious, memory, language, all the understructure of creativity, are formed very early; for a doctor, that won't make problems, but for a novelist or a composer, leaving the place to which his imagination, his obsessions, and thus his fundamental themes are bound could make for a kind of ripping apart. He must mobilize all his powers, all his artists wiles, to turn the disadvantages of that situation to benefits.
[ ... ] Only returning to the native land after a long absence can reveal the substantial strangeness of the world and of existence. ~ Milan Kundera

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. ~ Harper Lee

Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential. ~ Tony Buzan

Cassie was not a screamer! She didn't scream at football games or on rollercoaster rides or at scary horror movies. Not that rollercoaster rides and scary movies didn't make her want to. But she just controlled the urge. Always. So she didn't even realize that was her screaming at the top of her lungs for a second or two. ~ Terry Spear

Fall is nature's grace time; giving you a chance to put things in order, for the dying. ~ Forrest Carter