Olmedo Alvarez Quotes & Sayings

Falling isn't so bad, you know. It's only the landing that hurts. — Terry Pratchett

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse. — David Lloyd-Jones

Sometimes the constraints that we live with, and presume are the same for everything, are really only functions of the scale in which we operate. — Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there. — Pat Robertson

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. — Tami Hoag

Behold, my friends, I am justice.
And when at last we meet, you will not like it.
And if irony awakens in you at the end, see me weep with these tears of jade, and answer with a smile.
If you've the courage.
Have you, my friends, the courage? — Steven Erikson

What's the matter? Scared? Need your big vampire brother to go down first. — Julie Kagawa

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that. — John C. Reilly

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal. — Curtis Martin

do what we will, it's only making use o' the sperrit and the powers that ha' been given to us. And — George Eliot

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. — Slash

In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by thousands of people (tens of thousands in the case of the World Social Forum), that were exclusively devoted to popular education about the inner workings of global finance and trade. No topic was too arcane: the science of genetically modified foods, trade-related intellectual property rights, the fine print of bilateral trade deals, the patenting of seeds, the truth about certain carbon sinks. I sensed in these rooms a hunger for knowledge that I have never witnessed in any university class. It was as if people understood, all at once, that gathering this knowledge was crucial to the survival not just of democracy but of the planet. Yes, this was complicated, but we embraced that complexity because we were finally looking at systems, not just symbols. — Naomi Klein

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze. — Hafez

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. — Karl Marx

Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy. — Holly Sklar