Carmelino Alvarez Quotes & Sayings

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is. — Haruki Murakami

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood. — Mark Noble

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite — Iain Banks

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet. — Alexander Brome

Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. — Bill Nye

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don't know why. We were nice people. — Suzanne M. Sabol

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged. — Aristotle.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual ... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey

But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes. — Richard Rhodes

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist. — Tahir Shah

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves. — Glynn Turman

Religion is not removed by removing superstition. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am. — Sienna Miller

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. — Mary Douglas