Alfies Restaurant Menu Quotes & Sayings

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death. — Thomas Hobbes

The anger washed away in the knowledge that I was a hypocrite. I don't know how much of it showed on my face, but Jean-Claude cocked his head to one side. "Thoughts are flying across your face, ma petite, but what thoughts?" I stared up at him. "I think I owe you an apology." His eyes widened. "Then this is a truly historic occasion. What are you apologizing for?" I — Laurell K. Hamilton

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. — John Desmond Bernal

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one's faith, for the latter, one should never have any. — Igor Eliseev

Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab? — Michelle Hodkin

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. — Karl Barth

Poets are fools until they are kings. — Atticus

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own. — Alan McCluskey

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour. — Lisa Loeb

I said Jeannine why are you unhappy?
I'm not unhappy.
You have everything (I said). What is there that you want and haven't got?
I want to die.
Do you want to be an airplane pilot? is that it? And they won't let you? Did you have a talent for mathematics, which they squelched? Did they refuse to let you be a truck driver? What is it?
I want to live. — Joanna Russ

I am closer to who I want to be when I am alone lately. With people, I hear my voice and I just wonder who or what I'm doing all this for. Spreading myself out in front of people. Devaluing my ostensible worth by being so readily available to almost any random pedestrian who wanders into the crosswalk of my focus. If someone is within an earshot I shoot off at the mouth. — Carrie Fisher

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction. — Laurel Nakadate