Aphe'ta Quotes

#1. APHETA (APHE'TA) n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Lech Walesa

#3. Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

W.P. Kinsella

#4. Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Charlton Laird

#5. Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.

Melanie Dickerson

#6. Leaning down, I pressed a kiss to her head. "I will fix this. I swear I will make it right. I love you enough to get us through this. I just need you to love me enough. Please, Blaire. Love me enough," I pleaded.

Abbi Glines

#7. Are you still doing that crap?" I ask.
"You can't even do it properly," Eileen says.
"Just a matter of practice," Simone says.
"Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#8. With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.'

Brian Michael Bendis

#9. People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Carine Roitfeld

#10. In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success."

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

Robert Moss

#12. You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter

#13. I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare.

Sheldon Vanauken

#14. We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

May Sarton