Alkies Lapas Quotes & Sayings

Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different. — Wyatt Webb

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published. — Patrick Rothfuss

Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness. — D.H. Lawrence

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves. — Oscar Wilde

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays. — William Monahan

There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized — Saint Augustine

Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving. — John Bagot Glubb

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. — Ambrose Bierce

On the Today show, there was a story about a new poll that had been conducted regarding religious beliefs. A majority of Americans reported that they believed in angels, and a significant number thought they were personally protected by a guardian angel. He changed the channel to CNN, where they were covering a shooting at a North Carolina high school, a subject more comfortingly normal. — Bentley Little

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. — Dalai Lama

But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn't matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning. — Robert Bloch

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown? — Seamus Heaney

Time? No, let's not rush to it out of frustration. It'll be time when it's time. — Mark William Lindberg