Alidinamos Quotes & Sayings

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world. — Liz Williams

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph. — Joseph Conrad

One thing I've learned in my life is that we can teach and hope and pray, but in the end, each person controls their own actions. — Melissa Foster

Your jaw makes you different, Ionikus Reaves, and more often than not, it is our differences that make us stronger. — Nikolas Lee

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya. — Haruki Murakami

a dragon, a bear, a wolf, and two snakes entwined around a sword. The crest — Rick Riordan

Creativity is not a "thing," it's a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem. — Pearl Zhu

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us. — John F. Kennedy

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. — Bill Ayers

Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life. — Arthur Compton

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible. — Claire Forlani

It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of modern days that there are such things as legitimate tyranny and holy injustice, provided they are exercised in the name of the people. — Alexis De Tocqueville