Aveling Quotes

#1. The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Francis Aveling

#3. Start at the beginning

Jo Hughes

#4. Wheres lover boy???

Suzanne Collins

#5. Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

Mike Caro

#6. It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Prince Philip

#7. Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

Masaaki Hatsumi

#8. A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.

John Mott

#9. I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. You can have affection and hope in children's books, but that is out of fashion in adult fiction.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.

Bee Wilson

#12. I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence
the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves
to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

Stanley Cavell

#13. As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

Dennis Rodman