Alferata Quotes & Sayings

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule ... [Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell. — Jane Jacobs

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. — Leo Buscaglia

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27 — Nicholas Carr

Be vivacious.
Be outrageous.
Be you.
Be. — Debasish Mridha

You don't think it' too short? Mariah Carey shows less skin. — Jamie McGuire

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. — Moby

Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner ... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was. — Patricia McBride

Russia will make new allegiances. Siberia, unfreezing, will become a land grab. — Lidia Yuknavitch

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window. — Evan Esar

I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through. — Douglas R. Oberhelman

Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs. — Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Life seemed to Prince Andrey a series of senseless phenomena following one another without any connection. — Leo Tolstoy