Avain Quotes

#1. Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

Brendan Gill

#2. It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

Gerard De Nerval

#3. I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it's in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what's underneath. I'm as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days.

Chila Woychik

#4. When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

Laura Schlessinger

#5. Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. If you want to achieve success, there cannot be a Plan B.

John Patrick Hickey

#7. We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.

Rajasaraswathii

#8. The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.

Pico Iyer

#9. I was in chemical jail.

James Taylor

#10. Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

Hannah Hurnard

#11. The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.

Meghan Daum

#13. Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Akinari Ueda

#14. I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

Lela Loren

#15. More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?

Gemma Malley

#16. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

Stella Adler