Achrafieh Quotes & Sayings

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about. — Thomas Aquinas

No, Bigfoot . . . no, you know what I think you really are? Is you're the LAPD's own Charlie Manson. You're the screamin evil nutcase right at the heart of that li'l cop kingdom, that nothin and nobody can reach, and God help 'em if you wake up someday in a mood to bring it all down, 'cause then it'll be run copper run, and when the gunsmoke clears, there'll be songbirds building their nests in all the empty corners of the Glass House. Plus broken glass and shit — Thomas Pynchon

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things. — Anthony The Great

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness. — Jack Kornfield

Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul. — Dean Koontz

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
— David Crockett

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life. — Julie Anne Peters

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave. From — Frank Herbert

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet. — Wernher Von Braun

To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass. — Jim Harrison

I'm crazy about you, Spartan. — Jennifer Estep

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual ... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey

First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she — Lewis Carroll

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. — Sonia Sotomayor

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives. — Julie Salamon