Alpers Quotes & Sayings

All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else - in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature - in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally. — Fazlur Rahman

We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of us. A lot of people, even those who were not religious, were reverent and attributed the success to God. As we saw the artificial heart beat in Dr. Clark, the feeling was not aren't we great, but aren't we small. — William DeVries

I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better. — Kevin Durant

Love is obtuse and reckless; it interferes. — Elizabeth Bowen

Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man. — Suzannah Rowntree

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. — Criss Jami

In republics there is more life, more hatred, more desire for revenge. - MACHIAVELLI, The Prince, chapter five — Christopher Celenza

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. — Robert Pinsky

I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human? — T.H. White