Alan Kiki Quotes & Sayings

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe. — Joan D. Chittister

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. — James Surowiecki

People tend to focus on the things that they don't like about themselves. While that's important for change, it's equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It's a balancing act. — Tom Giaquinto

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength. — Philip Neri

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures. — Orrin Woodward

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations. — Marina And The Diamonds

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it. — Andy Stanley

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent. — Iris Murdoch

And you do know I'm the one who decides who I date" - she glared at Sam - "not you. If I want to drag this guy into the janitor's closet and have my way with him, that's none of your business."
"Drag me into a closet?" Hunter asked, his eyebrows up near his hairline. "Offer to buy me dinner first, then I'm all yours. — Ophelia London

Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat? — Paul Russell

No, Jack Ramsey didn't look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn't imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed. — Barbara Delinsky