Alfonso Casas Quotes & Sayings

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On that first trip to Ireland, grace - the kick-in-the-pants, clarifying, cosmic-pause-button kind of grace - didn't just have a harp. It had an entire soundtrack ... — Cathleen Falsani

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. — Thomas Sowell

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. — Zhuangzi

Captain Jack said he'd take some of you if he couldn't have all of you," he said, the mirth in his eyes making light of her ire. "And you let him?" "Seems a small price to pay to keep you." "When? How?" she sputtered. "Near dawn, with his scalping knife." "While I slept? — Laura Frantz

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. — Stewart Copeland

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Oh, life had been a lonely one, but she knew how to pass the time. — Tahereh Mafi

Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people"s ability to accept things in the private realm as long as they are not made part of the structure of the law. — Martha Rosler

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future. — Arron Wood

You're very clear about what you like and what you don't like," she said.
"Maybe so," I said. "Maybe that's why people don't like me. Never have."
"It's because you show it," she said. "You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry. — Haruki Murakami

Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings — Albert Einstein

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way. — Heloise