Alterados Quotes & Sayings

Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today. — Pete Souza

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power. — Lord Hailsham

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ... — Jose Saramago

The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advices "Be careful, protect yourself" Whereas love says "Let yourself, go!" The mind is strong, never fells down, while love hurts itself, fells into ruins. But isn't it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures. — Elif Shafak

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations. — Thom Yorke

Of course she was worthy. She was Celaena Sardothien, gods be damned. — Sarah J. Maas

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.' — Nick Robinson

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty. — James Freeman Clarke

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven. — Nikki Sixx

The whore or the saint: these seemed to be the prototypes set up by the Church's historic misogyny. But was there no alternative model to follow?

Yes, for Anne had seen for herself that it was possible to be an independent thinker, set free from the pattern of sinful Eve or patient Griselda. She had been in the company of clever, strong-willed women like the Regent Margaret of Austria and Margaret of Navarre. The influence of evangelism had enabled women of character to take an alternative path, one that offered Anne Boleyn a different future. — Joanna Denny