Allara Senior Quotes & Sayings

The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena. — Publilius Syrus

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. — Thomas Carlyle

But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can. — Virginia Woolf

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. — Caroline Leavitt

We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed you, confusing tenses I think. — Lorrie Moore

Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know. — Patrick Flanery

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work. — Michael Gruber

You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General - just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns - 'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps - just maybe - when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General! — Sinclair Lewis

Do the best that can be done and then ... be resigned. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines. — Jake Gyllenhaal

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after. — Richelle E. Goodrich

This isn't over, Sylvia. I'll leave you now, but I'm watching. I will not let that bastard hurt you." I said this just as I reached the door. As she shut the door I heard a strangled whisper, "No, you're perfectly capable of doing that on your own. — N.M. Facile

Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future: — Hilary Mantel

We must seek spirituality above all things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting. — Robert Dallek