Alcantara Quotes & Sayings

I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn't have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical. — Ernest Cline

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made. — Peter Of Alcantara

Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn't straighten my body, however much I tried to.

But I was alive.

I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.
— Pedro De Alcantara

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself. — Peter Of Alcantara

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter Of Alcantara

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider. — Samoa Joe

No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself. — Peter Of Alcantara

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold. — Estelle

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988. — Jay Leno

And remember, my son, that it is better for the soldier to smell of gunpowder than of civet, and that if old age should come upon you in this honourable calling, though you may be covered with wounds and crippled and lame, it will not come upon you without honour, and that such as poverty cannot lessen; especially now that provisions are being made for supporting and relieving old and disabled soldiers; for it is not right to deal with them after the fashion of those who set free and get rid of their black slaves when they are old and useless, and, turning them out of their houses under the pretence of making them free, make them slaves to hunger, from which they cannot expect to be released except by death. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret. — D.H. Lawrence

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? — Michel De Montaigne

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. — Matt Mullenweg

No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than Himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him. — Peter Of Alcantara

I love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I'll love you until the day I die. — Natalie Ansard

A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it. — William Peter Grasso

That dress does not fit you." Margaret laughed and tried to zip the dress up again, swearing when the zipper broke. — G.L. Tomas

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them — Peter Of Alcantara

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now. — E.D. Baker

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven. — Peter Of Alcantara

One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit. — Frederick Lenz