Alaqua Quotes & Sayings

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. — Kevin Nash

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes. — Martin Jacques

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all is inborn strength to fight hunger properly. It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonour, and the perdition of one's soul - than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And these chaps, too, had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple. Restraint! I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield. — Joseph Conrad

At thirteen I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. — Stephen King

A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology ... we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the land and identity of a region ... because we want to solidify and objectify the magical, bygone years that preceded the horror of becoming an adult. — Muriel Barbery

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them. — Thomas Traherne

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one. — Enoch Powell

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it. — Paula Wall

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn't ... Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Value your friendship. Value your relationships. — Barbara Bush