Assimulates Quotes

#1. It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne

#2. I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

Cora Pearl

#3. I'm going to kill you, Abby Abernathy!" America cried. "Kill you!"
"Technically, it's Abby Maddox, now," I said, smiling at my new husband.

Jamie McGuire

#4. Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

Bo Bennett

#5. God made them as stubble to our swords.

Oliver Cromwell

#6. She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.

Dana Marton

#7. Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.

Judith McNaught

#8. The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Sarah Bernhardt

#9. You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

Haruki Murakami

#10. It's like putting a band-aid on an amputation!

Natasha Anders

#11. I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Edward Hirsch

#12. People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know.

Hanif Kureishi