Alaster All Quotes & Sayings

Altogether the interval is small between birth and death; and consider with how much trouble, and in company with what sort of people and in what a feeble body this interval is laboriously passed. Do not then consider life a thing of any value. For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space. In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? — Marcus Aurelius

You're either ghetto or you're not. — Vince Staples

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. — Olive Schreiner

There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem. — Sergei Korolev

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind. — Tom Wilson

He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a tall figure in a black robe and the latest in agricultural handtools starts looking thoughtfully at you it is time to act fast. — Terry Pratchett

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go. — Tobin Bell

Death by Trivial Pursuits — Dean Cavanagh

At work, you're replaceable ... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable. — Maria Shriver

When identity is based on outward titles, material possessions, academic achievements or even relationship status, we place ourselves in a very fragile state. Until we are simply "enough" because of who we are "being" and not because of what we are "doing," our self-esteem and worth will continue to be "tossed to and fro," as our outer conditions are subject to change. — Shannon Tanner

He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment. — Theodore Sturgeon

I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me. — Johnny Weir

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME. — Robert Breault