Alwin Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity. — Josef Pieper

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward. — Alan Dershowitz

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? — Lynne Truss

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. — David Eddings

greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless. — Kate DiCamillo

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes. — Neal Stephenson

Be glad they didn't take you," I told him. "You were better off."
"I doubt that."
"I don't. You don't know what it's like, growing up around a bunch of people who treat you like an inferior, who see you only as a commodity to be used, who couldn't give a shit about you unless you're benefitting them in some way. . . ." I stopped, biting my lip. "You'd have tried to fit in, done your best to learn about them, to be one of them. But it would never have worked. You'd have always felt like what you were - an outsider. Because you're not like them. You're not . . . like anybody."
I looked up to see his face swimming in front of me.
"Be glad they didn't take you!"
"Someone in your life was stupid, too," he told me. And then he kissed me. — Karen Chance

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together. — Wole Soyinka

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down. — Sanjay Gupta

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart. — Laurie McBain

Philanthropy simply means love of what it means to be human. — Valaida Fullwood

My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion. — Herman Melville

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think abuot the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do. — John C. Maxwell

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York. — Marty Rubin