Halias Corpus Quotes & Sayings

We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass. — John Burgess

The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method. — Bob Avakian

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that. — Daniel Powter

It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy. — Brandon Sanderson

The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and how much pain and suffering they go through each day. Please do not ride [in horse-drawn carriages]. Take a beautiful walk together with your loved ones instead of bringing more pain to these beautiful animals. — Lea Michele

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. — Michael E. Gerber

When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this in our own culture. We spoke earlier about the castas paintings that were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Mexico. The Spanish, establishing a form of racial apartheid, delineate the fifty-three categories of racial mixtures between Africans, Indians, and the Spanish. And they have names, like tiente en el aire, which means stain in the air; and salta otras, which means jump back; or mulatto, a word that comes from mula, the unnatural mating between the horse and the donkey. "Sambo" is now a racial epithet in the US, but it was first used as one of the fifty-three racial categories in the castas paintings. — Amalia Mesa-Bains

There is nothing ridiculous in love. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox