Alizsa Quotes & Sayings

This girl is good at voices. She actually wanted to be Isolde, because Isolde has a better part and this girl is pale and stringy and rumpled and always looks slightly alarmed, which are qualities that don't quite fit Isolde, and so she plays Bridget instead. In truth it is her longing to be an Isolde that most characterises her as a Bridget: Bridget is always wanting to be somebody else. — Eleanor Catton

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves. — Mother Teresa

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. — Ambrose

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression. — Barry Eichengreen

One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin

Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear. — Colleen Saidman

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks. — Mason Cooley

On Max Yasgur's six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck - the traffic jams, the rainstorms - was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge. — Michael Lang

Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living. — Yasunari Kawabata