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ALPHA (A'LPHA) n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat. — Samuel Johnson

Sadness was like quicksand, catching you unaware and pulling you in the more you fought it. — Martin Kee

First we become the best, then we'll become first. — Lou Holtz

The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear anything. — Agatha Christie

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that. — Franz Kafka

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back. — Saul Bellow

I still hold ... that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them. — Niels Bohr

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. — Nigel Lawson

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future. — Ken Saro-Wiwa

Life has been dealt to us flawed; doesn't mean we have to like it all the time, but live it and make the best of it to our greatest ability. — A.R. Voss

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience. — Ving Rhames

I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored. — Margot Robbie

Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands ... I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands. — Thomas Friedman

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. — Henry David Thoreau