Allume Di Quotes & Sayings

If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping. — Yogi Berra

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am. — Ruth Asawa

Nothing puts me so completely out of patience
as the utterance of a wretched commonplace
when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure
roads, bridges, schools, dams
that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers. — Naomi Klein

You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes — James Patterson

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument. — Scott Hahn

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. — Rabindranath Tagore

And then, well ... He might have slept for a bit. He rather hoped he was sleeping, because he was quite certain he'd seen a six-foot rabbit hopping through his bedchamber, and if that wasn't a dream, they were all in very big trouble.
Although really, it wasn't the rabbit that was so dangerous as much as the giant carrot he was swinging about like a mace.
That carrot would feed an entire village. — Julia Quinn

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. ( ... ) However bad life may seem ( ... ) While there's life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception. — Gabriel Orozco