Alfonsos Bakery Quotes & Sayings

The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new. — Kenneth Prewitt

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword. — Dave Besseling

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. — Will Rogers

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Koinonia is often translated by the word "fellowship," but that is too thin a word for many of us (especially those with memories of bad potluck dinners in the fellowship hall). Koinonia is a rich word that refers to shared life lived in intimate community. It is sharing one another's joys and burdens. It is walking together in the details of daily life. Apart from a deep experience of koinonia, our corporate worship gathering too easily devolves into a kind of individual spectator experience that we all happen to have in the same time and place week after week. — Barry D. Jones

If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty. — Zhuangzi

God helps those who have no-cut contracts. — Aesop

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. — Andy Warhol

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence. — Ella Baker