Alvisshows Quotes & Sayings

My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change. — Jimmy Carter

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City. — Justin Townes Earle

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. — Jonathan Lethem

Speaking about interesting people does not necessarily make the speaker interesting. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. — Geoffrey Boycott

Feelings, it seems like it is going on forever. But are they ..!!! Up there in the furthest depth of the heart might be some point where something turned into absolutely nothing — Sameh Elsayed

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man. — Elie Wiesel

For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God? — Anonymous

Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright. — Ben Aaronovitch