Ciraldo Alfred Quotes & Sayings

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
— Louise Erdrich

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword. — Andrew Ashling

Solitude creates confidence so you can walk in a room and know whether surrounded or alone, you are already filled and more than enough. — Bekah Jane Pogue

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards. — L.M. Montgomery

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal ... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. — John Lydon

So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. — Robert Schumann

In the country whereto I go
I shall not see the face of my friend
Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;
Together we shall not find
The land on whose hills bends the new moon
In air traversed of birds.
What have I thought of love?
I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow."
I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendor
As a wind out of old time ...
But there is only the evening here,
And the sound of willows
Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.
from "Betrothed — Louise Bogan

I was born to murder the world. — Daniel Von Bargen

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right. — P. J. O'Rourke

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security. — Theodore C. Sorensen

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy. — Lights

Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning on my own terms, not according to the dogma laid down by religious ruffians or a vengeful God. If, as believers claim, the word "gospel" means good news, then the good news for me is that there is no gospel, other than what I can define for myself, by observation and conscience. As a journalist and free-thinking human being, I have come not to favor and fear religion, but to face and fight it as an impediment to civilized advancement. — Steve Benson

And I've learned that letting people get close to you doesn't always lead to pain. Some people are actually worth a risk. — Rachel Harris