Aller Quotes

#1. No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and after a successful and vigorous political life, he forgets it himself. The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

Blaise Pascal

#3. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

Ratan Tata

#4. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Booth Tarkington

#5. Since before even the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, human beings used the stars and seasons to track time and record their most important moments. Cesium severed that link with the heavens, effaced it just as surely as urban streetlamps blot out constellations.

Sam Kean

#6. The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Cotton Mather

#8. When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

Henri Nouwen

#9. The worst coffee I had ever tasted, but it was hot. I drank three cups and sat there an hour, until I was completely dry.

Charles Bukowski

#10. The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#11. We are thankful to have someone who really accept the bad things about us,
and sometimes we hurt them but they never give up on us.

Aina Aller

#12. Characters are the lifeblood of any
good book.

Craig Hart

#13. To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book.

Jonathan Franzen

#14. The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.

Massimo Vignelli

#15. I love being with you,
to live,love and laugh out loud.
LOL

Aina Aller

#16. You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.

Stefan Sagmeister