Karmine Alers Quotes & Sayings

A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. — Alex Flinn

To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth, — Charles Bukowski

A lot of people are dissatisfied with their jobs. "Theologian" Drew Carey said, "You hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody. They meet at the bar." A research group affiliated with the University of Chicago recently listed the ten least happy jobs in the world and the ten happiest jobs in the world. What they found was the ten least happy jobs actually were more financially lucrative and offered higher status than the ten happiest jobs. The difference? People in the happiest jobs had a higher sense of meaning. Less money, less status, but a higher sense of meaning. The main thing you bring home from your work is not a paycheck. The main thing you bring home from work is your soul. Work is a soul function. We're made to create value. The writer of Ecclesiastes says, "There is nothing better for a person than that he should make his soul enjoy good in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God. — John Ortberg

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese

When we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to leave us defenseless. — Jonathan Gottschall

Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it's easier for them to increase their awareness there. — Frederick Lenz

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things. — Bilal Tanweer

I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I'm writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it. — Don Carpenter

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything. — Arina Tanemura

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. — William Godwin

As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know your rights under the law and possible tax deductions
and to claim every one of them. — Donald Alexander

Words can't change my face — R.J. Palacio

It would be a combination of comfort and surprise an audience might appreciate. — Lorrie Moore

Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs ( ... Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles ... Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put ... by snorting or injecting ... directly into ... bloodstreams without giving ... bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants ... may modify the active principles, making them safer ... — Andrew Weil