Alentamos Quotes & Sayings

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P. J. O'Rourke

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger

The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly. — Gillian Flynn

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life. — Anne Truitt

Those occasional people who seem to achieve some kind of happiness here like your two dead colleagues, these are the things that Hell allows to flourish in tiny, stunted bursts, to make it immeasurably worse for everyone else. — Simon Kurt Unsworth

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt. — Gustav Landauer

No one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience. — Shirley Maclaine

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me. — Agnes Varda

I worry about you," he finally said to Free. "I'm afraid that you're going to break your heart, going up against the world."
"No." The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. "I'm going to break the world. — Courtney Milan

Finding peace and contentment with Evernight - two emotions he was certain he'd never found in bed with a woman before - was entirely unacceptable. When awake, the woman was prickly as a hedgehog and about as lovable as a block of ice. — Kristen Callihan

Old Timer's Disease
The celebrity
with Alzheimer's
sued himself for writing his
unauthorized autobiography. — Beryl Dov

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen. — Brett Davern

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can. — Jonathan Edwards

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare. — Martha Beck