Alexis Ayon Quotes

all the while trying not to think of the golden eyed idiot from the bar, not how his voice sounded, low and velvety or how the moon light gave little reflections on his hair or the shining in his eyes. I'm like a sappy girl from a book, she thought hiding her face under her purple pillows. ~ Amanda Littrell

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Socialism is a new form of slavery. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes. ~ Kim Alexis

Oh...I cant. I cant dance."
"What, not at all? Not even when you hear ABBA?"
"I do my very best not to hear ABBA. ~ Alexis Hall

You don't really fall in love with a house. You fall in love with the life you could have in it. ~ Alexis Hall

But know this, if you let me go, you'll regret it forever, because sometimes the gods run out of patience with fools and take back the gifts they've offered. ~ Alexis Morgan

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the movements of the social body; but this party extends over the whole community, and it penetrates into all classes of society; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but it finally fashions it to suit its purposes. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed.
Alexis Alexandrovich ~ Leo Tolstoy

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.
If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

one of Chloe's models 'as gone down wif leprosy . . ."
"Wait," interrupted Niall. "Leprosy?"
"That's what Chlo said. That fing wif your throat where you can't talk."
"That's laryngitis. ~ Alexis Hall

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental. ~ Alexis Taylor

Let me down right now, you impotent angst puppy. ~ Alexis Hall

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,
And then you'll truly see
That nothing is as beautiful
As His grand Majesty. ~ Alexis York Lumbard

Did happiness always used to be this complicated?" Amy asked after a bit.
I shrugged, " I have no idea. Happiness and I are barely on speaking terms these days. ~ Alexis Hall

Are we going to kick arse and take names, Miss Kane?" "I was thinking we'd maybe just ask them some questions. Politely. ~ Alexis Hall

I don't want fine. Fine isn't enough. Isn't not about the open fire or whatever other clichés you can conjure up, but yes, I want a connection. I want you to care as much as I care. I want you to need it and want it and mean it. I want it to matter/i>. ~ Alexis Hall

Most girls swoon when I talk to them. So quit ignoring me."
"So go talk to them," Kara slammed her locked shut and walked away. ~ Alexis Tiger

I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small. ~ Alexis Ohanian

In the township, as well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate influence. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered. ~ Alexis Carrel

Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine. ~ Alexis Hall

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

If rackabones eat up the sky, if words spring out of rock, my soul will wind down and life run out the clock. ~ Andre Alexis

Religion in America ... Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it ... I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It's difficult, sometimes, for me to understand that I have the power to hurt someone. You see, it requires me to accept that somebody might like me in the first place. ~ Alexis Hall

We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch. ~ Alexis Ohanian

I wanted to explore more of us and lose myself, I wanted it to be you and no one else" AP ~ Alexis Pettway

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos. ~ Alexis Knapp

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville