Alterative Quotes & Sayings

Princeton isn't actually part of New Jersey. It's a small island of wealth and intellectual eccentricity floating in the Sea of Central Megalopolis. It's an honest-to-god town awash in the land of the strip mall. Hair is smaller, heels are shorter, asses are tighter in Princeton. — Janet Evanovich

Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say. — Mario Frangoulis

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. — Alfred Stieglitz

You don't convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp. — Ryan Holiday

We hardly ever realize it, that we have the ability to cut anything out of our lives, any pain, any misery, any negative person, anytime, in the blink of an eye. We hold the power. — Jose N. Harris

I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base. — Luke Bryan

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything. — Judah Friedlander

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself. — Austin Carlile

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him. — Amy Engel

Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers. — Eoin Colfer

I want to stay a while, wrapped in silence, the way the trees and rocks and the ground beneath my feet are wrapped in moss and ivy and soft, green lichen. — Cathy Cassidy

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. — Josh Billings

There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth. — Conchitina Cruz

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. — St. Catherine Of Siena

In many early Christian sources, if a man behaves stupidly it is because he is a fool, while if a woman does so it is seen as typical of her sex. Many readers will wonder why women were so passionate in working for a cause that seems often, on the face of it, to have taken an unnecessarily demeaning tone in speaking of women. — Kate Cooper