Alkahest Quotes & Sayings

Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention. — Trent Shelton

Personally, I always thought married sex was the best sex. Owen and I knew each other's bodies, our favorite parts. There was the trust factor, the love, the like. It was always good. — Kristan Higgins

Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything. — John Sulston

The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him. — Holly Black

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy. — Oscar Arias

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. — Ida B. Wells

When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller

che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars? — Luigi Giussani

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe. — Stephen Keshi

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated. — Dennis Kucinich

Trust happens when leaders are transparent. — Jack Welch