Asserting Def Quotes

#1. No child, still less a fetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It's an adult device, a covenant with boredom and deceit.

Ian McEwan

#2. When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England.

Hilaire Belloc

#3. Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

Bobby Knight

#4. For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

Loren Eiseley

#5. Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

Tim DeChristopher

#6. We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

Luigi Pirandello

#7. Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Frida Kahlo

#8. Golden Heart finalist in the prestigious RWA writing contest. Finalist in the International Digital Awards Semi-finalist in the Best Indie Books of 2012. A featured

E. Ayers

#9. The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

Neville Cardus

#10. We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired,

Alain De Botton

#11. To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. I can't be the Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.

Basith

#14. Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

David Foster