Alaijah Quotes & Sayings

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore De Balzac

You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect. — Alphonso Lingis

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Happiness is never the result of a search. — Jeff Tikari

And just like that, he's dead. My one love, my soul mate, my forever, is dead. — Jessica Sorensen

By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End The — Amor Towles

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody. — Marshall Fritz

You know, Grace, it's queer but I don't feel narrow. I feel broad. How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I've seen everything ... and I've hardly been away from this yard ...
I've been part of the beginning and part of the growth. I've married ... and borne children and looked into the face of death. Is childbirth narrow, Grace? Or marriage? Or death? When you've experienced all those things, Grace, the spirit has traveled although the body has been confined. I think travel is a rare privilege and I'm glad you can have it. But not every one who stays at home is narrow and not every one who travels is broad. I think if you can understand humanity ... can sympathize with every creature ... can put yourself into the personality of every one ... you're not narrow ... you're broad. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface. — Janice Tanton

Only incorrigible bohemians find it boring or laughable when a man of talent outgrows the libertine chrysalis stage and begins to perceive and express the dignity of the intellect, adopting the courtly ways of a solitude replete with bitter suffering and inner battles though eventually gaining a position of power and honor among men. — Thomas Mann

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? — Marilyn Manson

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul. — Emmanuelle Seigner

And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable. — Masashi Kishimoto