Alec Mattia Quotes

#1. This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the whole world is being turned into casino.

Douglas Coupland

#2. I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#4. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Alfred Hitchcock

#5. At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

Joseph Murray

#6. If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.

Stokely Carmichael

#7. You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Andy Stanley

#8. Truth imprisons fools, but sets the wise free.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#11. People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

William Raspberry

#12. He had an easy manner and an honest smile. He seemed an earnest man. I did not like him.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Stephen Kinzer