Liselotte Almonte Quotes & Sayings

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. — Ian Fleming

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations. — Julia Pierson

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action. — Alfie Kohn

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica. — Barbara Kingsolver

Human existence is a brutal experience to me ... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most. — Woody Allen

Art is anything you can get away with. — Marshall McLuhan

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. — Abbe Pierre

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. — William Shakespeare

He didn't know if it was real, if freedom was something you could earn or win after a long, hard fight, or if it was just an illusion. But he decided it didn't matter. Only this mattered. This moment right here, surrounded by the people he cared about. And he realized this was the paradise his parents had meant when they named this ship. — Mindee Arnett

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden

One can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. — Lisa Kleypas

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. — Tony Campolo

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant. — Prince Philip

Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being in love' - is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be 'in love' with someone else. 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C.S. Lewis

Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given. — Chick Hearn