Alumno Online Quotes & Sayings

They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet. — Leo Tolstoy

When you begin with the finish line in mind, you miss all the fun stuff along the way. The better approach is to tweak and grow, tweak and grow. — Sophia Amoruso

When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other. — Andrew Revkin

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another. — Michel De Montaigne

I've won. I hate politics. Especially in a room full of alphas. — Pierce Brown

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home. — Shannon L. Alder

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. — Berthold Auerbach

If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special. — Kyle MacLachlan

You will die."
"I guess. I don't know." She shook her head, trying to pick through her feelings. "I used to think I was alive just because I kept getting away. If someone didn't put a bullet in my head, I was winning. I was still breathing, right?" She looked at the blackened land around her, feeling tired and sad and alone. "But now I'm thinking it ain't like that. Now I'm thinking that once you got enough dead looking over your shoulder, you're dead anyway. Don't matter if you're still walking and talking, they weigh you down. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I am your Ted's song-legend, Crow of the death-chill, please. The God-eating, trash-licking, word-murdering, carcass-desecrating math-bomb motherfucker, and all that. — Max Porter

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come — Steve Jobs

I mean, not that I killed her just to get the car, or anything. — MaryJanice Davidson

What's the difference between sin and shame? — Various

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order. — Joseph Heller

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult. — David Platt