Alvey Home Quotes & Sayings

I really like driving cars. I love car games. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

A maid has to be mistrustful in this world, or she will not be a maid for long. — George R R Martin

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. — Herman Melville

He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words the effect of the field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam - of the landscape before us; of the weather round us and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye. — Charlotte Bronte

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world. — Stanislav Andreski

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened. — Kamal Ravikant

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. — Richard Burton

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. — Northrop Frye

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. — Sheena Iyengar

The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home. — Bart D. Ehrman

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held. — Don Cupitt

Few "mixed" couples - HSMs and LSMs in love - even broke up over it, he was told. To high self-monitors, low self-monitors can seem rigid and socially awkward. To low self-monitors, high self-monitors can come across as conformist and deceptive - "more pragmatic than principled," in Mark Snyder's words. Indeed, HSMs have been found to be better liars than LSMs, which would seem to support the moralistic stance taken by low self-monitors. — Susan Cain