Alera Desk Quotes & Sayings

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. — Elaine Pagels

I invite all those who share my anxiety about, and hopes for, the future, and who burn with the desire for a political rebirth, to enlist with us. And addressing myself especially to the young, I invite them to become the vanguard in this sortie of national reconstruction. For a proud and happy Greece! — Konstantinos Karamanlis

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious. — Don McLean

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. — Adam Smith

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself. — Jerry Bridges

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more. — Sammy Sosa

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself. — Edmund Burke

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell

If you love a person, you can forgive anything. — Herbert Marshall

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me. — Karl Pilkington

Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships ... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life. — Wayne Muller

The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion. — Joseph Goldstein

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong. — Curt Schilling

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments. — Chuck D