Alvospot Quotes & Sayings

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha

This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal". — Angela Y. Davis

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way. — Janet Street-Porter

Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the Cold War, Russia effectively occupied all of Eastern Europe, suppressing not only its freedoms but also its ethnic conflicts. For five centuries the Ottomans managed most of the Middle East in the same way. But today we live in a postimperial and a postcolonial world. No great power wants to occupy anybody. As we've seen, the major powers have all learned the hard way that when you occupy another country all that you win is a bill. It is much easier to import a country's labor and natural resources - or their brainpower online - than it is to take them over. Also, — Thomas L. Friedman

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. — William Shakespeare

There is no greater paradox in the cosmos," the deceased had written, "than the apparent contradiction of our helplessness ('without me, you can do nothing') alongside God's 'helplessness.' Oh, I know, God is all-powerful, and so on; but he cannot undo what he has done, and what he once did was to make men free. This means that he 'needs' us in order to get us to Heaven as his lovers, and in order to do his will in the world. All we have to do in order to frustrate those wishes - to render God 'helpless' - is to say No. But God is not helpless, really, because he has mercy - himself. And what mercy does is convert, change our hearts. Which God never stops trying to do until we are dead. This means continued suffering for him, which is what Christ is all about." Young — William F. Buckley Jr.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. — Charlie Sheen

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. — Orson Pratt

Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness. — Lorenz Oken

Love takes time, So don't rush it — Anna Napper

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel