Alankaras Quotes & Sayings

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman. — Marge Piercy

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along. — Adam Schlesinger

They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more. — Larissa Ione

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude. — Jacques Maritain

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity. — Barack Obama

Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as "doomsday" preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world. — Billy Graham

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex. — Paulo Coelho

A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth.
He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them.
But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking. ("Hunger") — Charles Beaumont

If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize. — Bernard Levin

[When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck. — Phyllis Diller

They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool. — Daniel Alarcon