Altieri Quotes & Sayings

Off-limits or not, she was beautiful. The type of beautiful he could fall for. — Dawn Altieri

Every last person we kill is for family. If we do not kill them, they kill us. It's the way of the world. It is self-defense. — J.J. McAvoy

I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me. — Tahereh Mafi

But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated. — Marjane Satrapi

Thus we come to the problem of determining what the poem is 'about.' Charles Altieri notes that '[a]n expression of the self can be one that is intended, the self's act, or one that is symptomatic, the act of a self not in control of what it manifests'(24) In 'Yankee Doodle,' and to a lesser extent in '$$$$$$," the interesting aspects of the poem are not 'the intended expression of the self.' The lack of explicitness is not suggestive in any positive sense because we feel that were things to be spelled out, this would weaken, not strengthen, the narrator's case by revealing the unacknowledged irrationality at the root of it. — Russell Harrison

Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give. — Robert D. Hales

You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter? — Dawn Altieri

You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious - wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body. — Francesca Lia Block

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense ... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. — Joseph Conrad

Because the true root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce hunger. Conversely, only technologies that have positive effects on the distribution of wealth, income, and assets, that are pro-poor, can truly reduce hunger. — Miguel A. Altieri

Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest. — Miguel A. Altieri

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. — J.R. Ward

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen. — Jessica Altieri

I found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely — Ntozake Shange

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau