Alphonses Quotes & Sayings

There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives. — Shane Warne

Reach inwards and draw that unique potential out, with it you can be anything and achieve so much! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients. — Sandy Gallin

Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences. — Steven Erikson

It was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human. It wasn't too bad, really; he wouldn't even mind being human on full-time basis — Nick Hornby

The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not? At the fair, do I buy ribbons or wine? For the new ferry's headboard, do I use camphor or pearwood? Small things. A kiss, a ribbon, a grain that coaxes the knife this way or that. They are not, Kit Meinem of Atyar. Our souls wait for our answer because any answer changes us. This is why I wait to decide what I feel about your bridge. I'm waiting until I know how I will be changed."
"You never know how things will change you," Kit said.
"If you don't, you have not waited to find out. — Kij Johnson

You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now. — Eleanor Brownn

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge

Observation:

Thanks to technological advances, avid readers seem to be replacing DTBAD (Dead Tree Book Acquisition Disorder) with an alphabet soup of more more modern-day hoarding behaviors: EBAD (E-Book Acquistion Disorder), EGAD (Electronic Gadget Acquisition Disorder), and ABAD (Audiobook Acquisition Disorder). Of course, there's also MYBAD (Movie and YouTube Acquisition Disorder: the hoarding or obsessive viewing of digital films and videos, some based on books). If any of these syndromes describes you, take heart: there's probably an app for that! - 8/9/2013 — Lisa Tolliver

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. — P.G. Wodehouse

She spent her life, she realised, impassively content and yet unable to settle. — Lara Williams

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me. — Walt Disney

The quality of taking responsibility does not come naturally. It has to be taught
more by example than by anything else. — Daniel Whyte III

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. — Franz Kafka