Best 52 quotes of Agona Apell on MyQuotes

A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible

A frequent favour is soon a debt

A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Busy mouths grow on idle heads

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

Gender equality remains meaningless until we consider it to mean that femininity and masculinity, when we consider the full scope of capabilities that they each afford humanity, are of equal value to society. Therefore, women who attempt to act out equality while suppressing their femininity do not prove equality but only the advantage of masculinity.

Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

If man evolved spontaneously from nothingness to flesh then man must be immortal. Why? Well, man in his development from nothingness to substance did not exist in a controlled environment and so lay prone to countless assaults from elements of his coarse environment. To preserve his viability, he had to ride materially unscathed through all those assaults. So it is reasonable to expect that man must be immune to destruction by all malevolent forces whose vicious tackles he stumbled through in the course of his development from cell to flesh. For how can he in the stoutness of maturity be susceptible to destruction by blows that he absorbed without peril in his infancy?

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them.

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.

Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight

One of the great pains of peace is to see the heroes of a thousand battles retreat to a thousand bottles at the doctor's and the barman's. In the snares of alcoholism and PTSD, they who survived the battlefield now fall in the bottle-field.

Oratory is the highest form of music

Our hearts gain from the weight of fear what the athlete's limbs gain from the weight of dumbbells, but only if like the athlete we do not carry that weight all day but learn to set it down before the stress of exertion begins to crush the sinews it was meant to build.

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it

Some instincts are best left uncivilized

Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

The great aim of the dating game is to find that one person who can stand at the bottom of your heart and touch the top of your mind

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

The low suffer most the blow of the law

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares

The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him

There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw

There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and their own school of thought so that they can live under their own roof at home, at work, and in thought.

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

Those who won't seek their fortune in a haze must find it in a maze for fortune nests in one or the other

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

When racks shed arms like autumn leaves, the land shall turn from red to gold