Alisra Quotes & Sayings

How much ammunition?"
"No idea. How do I find out?" He explained.
In the moonlight, she felt the bulges of the cartridges in the cylinder. "Six," she said. "And you don't know how to use it?"
"No."
"But you are American."
"Ha-ha."
Meyer, Kai (2012-02-14). Arcadia Awakens (p. 375). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. — Kai Meyer

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen. — Jim Parrack

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. — George Eliot

You call the police when a robbery takes place. You call the fire department when there is a fire. but, you call a friend when you're down. — Sydney Wilhelmy

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured. — Brian May

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. — Erik Erikson

What is it with all the immaculate blondes? It's like Stepford here. — E.L. James

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility. — Bryan Stevenson

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed. — Jim Talent

From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it when fade away. — W.G. Sebald

Sex and love went together. Not here. The teenage hormones were still here, but the feelings were gone. — Amy Tintera

And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about that
Quran-ALISRA — Anonymous