Alijuan Quotes & Sayings

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan. — Jennifer Granholm

Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so. — George Osborne

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest. — Stacey D'Erasmo

The people of New Zealand are generally terribly nice. Everybody we had met so far had been terribly nice to us. Terribly nice and eager to please. I realised now that all this relentless niceness and geniality to which we had been subjected had got to me rather badly. New Zealand niceness is not merely disarming, it's decapitating as well, and I had come to feel that if Just one more person was pleasant and genial at me I'd hit him. — Douglas Adams

small-town bankers like Justin Barker — A.W. Gray

Archie asked if I'd told my parents about him, and I said I hadn't. "How much longer are you going to keep me in the closet?" he said. "It's dark in here. And I keep stepping on your shoes. — Melissa Bank

But I guess I still have this fear that you can catch invisible things from other people. That someone else's insanity can creep under your skin and fry your brain. — Kathleen Hale

I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mathematics is one of the most basic
and most ancient
types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists. — Ivor Grattan-Guinness

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things. — Susan Hill

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. ( ... ) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. — Marian Wright Edelman