Aperitifs Quotes

#1. Usually I try to suppress any emotions that savor of regret, because they are invariably aperitifs to a main course of depression, and for the long-lived, that's a recipe for suicide. But that doesn't mean they can't sneak up on me sometimes.
And, like, gang-tackle me.

Kevin Hearne

#2. I am every age, up to my own.

Mitch Albom

#3. All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

Rick Moody

#4. And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

DeForest Soaries

#5. A great man shows his greatness,' said Carlyle, 'by the way he treats little men.

Anonymous

#6. If you have missed the sunset, try to catch the moonrise! If you have missed a beauty, let other beauties console you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. The cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one's parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for intellectual and emotional freedom.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#8. My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

Marc Jacobs

#9. Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

John Ortberg

#10. Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. A noted writer in The Washington Post recently described the cause of compassion for farm animals as the moral calling of our time.

Gene Baur

#12. The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.

Nathan Lewis