Aleros Para Quotes & Sayings

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. — Mary Astell

Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom of the chivalrous knights and their milk-maid passion for the fairy tale princess. But I'm not like that ... inside. I'm not. I'm not. Never. Make it a savage war between us. Don't win me ... destroy me! — Alfred Bester

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to. — Helen Gurley Brown

We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured ... Until the outside is inflicted on the inside, then the brutal war begins. We are not born to compassion either - large wide eyes and sweet demeanor notwithstanding. — Steven Erikson

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand. — Dana Rohrabacher

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. — Edmond De Goncourt

He first selected the smallest one ... and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.' — William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore. — Howard Hawks

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees]. — Mark Teixeira

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. — Erik Hersman

Plant the seed, set the target, live your life. — Gretchen Bleiler

No one gets found in love. Everyone gets lost in it, Because love is overwhelming. Its beyond your control. You have to relinquish control to be in love. And that's a good thing. There's a beauty to being lost in something bigger than you. — Andrew Kaufman

Her young soul felt cut up like a fifty-year-old, like a squirrel that appeared content, but carried scars from the vestige of time in its black and gray grooves. — Meghna Pant