Famous Aporia Quotes

#1. I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

Tim O'Brien

#2. The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Gayle Forman

#4. We have seen ... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Josiah Strong

#5. Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Richard Whately

#6. What is there not to like about cupids?"
"You don't find them rather dangerous?"
"Chubby little babies?"
"Carrying deadly weapons.

Julia Quinn

#7. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

#8. The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

Joseph Conrad

#9. You may speak with your eyes, but I am not blind.

ReadLikeWildFire

#10. When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.

Yanni

#11. Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

Frederick Lenz

#12. People ask me: "Why don't you take photos in color? In color!" But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.

Svetlana Alexievich

#13. Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.

John Adams

#14. I like books that make me laugh, not cry.

Meredith Schorr