Allone Quotes & Sayings

No day so clear but hath dark clouds. — George Herbert

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw. — Bill Lee

In a popular teaching story, a man being chased by a tiger leaps off a cliff in his attempt to get away. Fortunately, a tree growing on the side of the cliff breaks his fall. Dangling from it by one arm - tiger pacing above, jutting rocks hundreds of feet below - he yells out in desperation, "Help! Somebody help me!!" A voice responds, "Yes?" The man screams, "God, God, is that you?" Again, "Yes." Terrified, the man says, "God, I'll do anything, just please, please, help me." God responds, "Okay then, just let go." The man pauses for a moment, then calls out, "Is anyone else there? — Tara Brach

Anything I do, I want to do it well. — J. Cole

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. — Jodi Picoult

You'd be stiff if you'd been sitting on a brick wall all day, said Professor McGonagall. — J.K. Rowling

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted). — Kenny Smith

What was that?" I ask as I blow through.
"You were behind schedules," she says, panting but keeping pace next to me as we sprint down the pier. "Figured you could use some help, so I blew the transformer. — Tera Lynn Childs

- Whenever we roam be beside me.
When you're allone. When you go.
When no one comes along. And for all we
Wander. Encounter and open
Allways curl up with me.
Give me pain, past and fury.
Betray my way. I won't abandon you.- — Mark Z. Danielewski

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible. — Arthur M. Jolly

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. — Casey Affleck

The land is so much more than its analysis. — John Steinbeck

He had proved nothing, he had made no viable gesture of atonement, and he knew now that he probably never would. If he could have talked with Quint's ghost now he could only have said: "I'm sorry; there's nothing more I can do."
And Quint, he knew, would have said: "Right; you're absolutely right about that. ( ... )"
How then could he feel so good. What possible right did he have to be at peace with himself?
He didn't know. All he knew that day ( ... ) all he knew with any clarity was that he was nineteen years old, that the war was over, and that he was alive. — Richard Yates