Allestero Quotes & Sayings

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues — Dorothy L. Sayers

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you're worthless. — Charles Frazier

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. — Eli Broad

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them. — Rene Descartes

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. — Jose A. Teixeira

Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn't very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same. — DJ Shadow

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament, which is that everyone is going to die; there are circumstances that are just catastrophically unfair; evil sometimes wins and injustice sometimes wins, and that the only justice we are going to find in the world is the justice we make.
We have an ethical responsibility to absorb this, really down to the soles of our feet. And this notion of an afterlife, of how it's all going to work out and its all part of god's plan, is a way of shirking that responsibility. — Sam Harris

Angie stepped from behind Eric. In her cute pipsqueak voice, she asked, "Can't you take me home?"
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"It's a law enforcement vehicle, not a taxi." John said. — Jennifer Echols

Memories- even the best of them- faded. — Kristin Hannah

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more. — Reggie Lee

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong. — Harold Perrineau

Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends. — Tabatha Coffey

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love. — Pope Francis

I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?' — Giancarlo Esposito

We have learned nothing. — Pablo Picasso