Achimist Quotes

#1. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Matt Bondurant

#2. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.

Charles Dickens

#3. I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Emanuel Lasker

#4. I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.

Art Alexakis

#5. Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease.

John Milton

#6. To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#7. [Maisie]: ... going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

Jacqueline Winspear

#8. I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

William Wells Brown

#9. When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Bryant McGill