Alasen Quotes & Sayings

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. — Vanilla Ice

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated. — Nicola Sturgeon

We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day - are the true? — Monica Ali

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. — Jean Anouilh

It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance. — Cheryl Strayed

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack. — Larry McMurtry

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. — Johann Arndt

We tend to think that people's true nature comes out at decisive moments, when the going gets tough, when they're pushed to the limit. The moment for heroes and saints. And yet, strange though it may seem, at such moments, human behavior is usually neither exemplary nor encouraging. The group who elbow their way to the head of the line where the concert tickets are being handed out; the spectators who flee the burning theater, trampling over the weaker members of the audience . . . — Rafael Chirbes

Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere. — Cheryl Strayed

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. — Diana Wynne Jones

There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed into the Pentagon. — National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child. — Helen Mirren

Their lands as a result of our actions (and inactions), our governments will build ever more high-tech fortresses and adopt even more draconian anti-immigration laws. And, in the name of — Naomi Klein

The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It's forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which gave rise to it in the first place. — Matthew S. Williams