Alea Quotes & Sayings

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters. — Tom Brokaw

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity. — Nicholas Lea

In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great. — Elana Meyers

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession. — Tahir Shah

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary. — James Alan Fox

Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.) — Suetonius

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp. — Billy Graham

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy. — Tab Hunter

I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him ... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni. — Heidi R. Kling

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. — C.S. Lewis

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo. — Alan Mak

Standardisation of intellectual and emotional patterns had become extreme. A main mechanism for achieving this was a device that supplied identical indoctrinational material simultaneously into every living or working unit, whether that of a single person, a family, or an institution, through a whole country. These programmes were standardised, particularly for children. At best they reinforced a low level of ethic - kindness to animals, for instance - but the worst was inherent in the sheer fact of the infinite repetition. — Doris Lessing

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting — Charlotte Shane

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast. — Stephen R. Lawhead

We'd been little more than children when we fell in love. Now everything was ashes, ashes of ashes burned at temperatures where ash burns, but our full-fledged sex life had only just begun, and I would never stop loving her. It was the prospect of another two or three or five years of sex in the ashes that made me think of death. When she pulled away from me and dropped to her knees and unzipped my knapsack and took out my Swiss Army knife, I thought she might be thinking of it, too. But instead she was stabbing the five remaining condoms dead. — Jonathan Franzen

All life forms add their own colour in the world. It is important we embrace all the colours with equal value. — Tim Rees