Alma Alexander Quotes

It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.

Alma Alexander

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• Look at the way things are now. Just a set of crab in barrel and all of a sudden one crab just appear with a jacket and tie and telling everybody that he is not a crab any more. Ridiculous little place with ridiculous little people.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • People
  • Way
  • Barrel

• Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Legislators
  • Theft
  • Barrel

• As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Water
  • Malice
  • Brandy

• I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Malice

• Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Mind
  • Hatred
  • Affection

• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  

  Socrates
  • Part
  • Poison
  • Malice

• We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Spirit
  • Wit
  • Malice

• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Malice
  • Strives
  • Emultion

• Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Hate
  • Humanity
  • Malice

• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • Inspiration
  • Darkness
  • Read

• Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Arms
  • Malice
  • Stature

• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Prejudice
  • Malice
  • Arrows

• You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Feel Good

• If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

  

  David Powers
  • God
  • Men
  • Ifs

• Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • May
  • Awe
  • Invocation

• They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Powerful
  • Independent
  • Hypocrisy

• Anger makes people stupid.

  

  William Kennedy
  • People
  • Stupid

• ...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Curiosity

• As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

  

  Carl Whitaker
  • Wife
  • Miss

• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Movement
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon

• It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.

  

  Alma Alexander
  • Malice
  • Barrel
  • Cluelessness