Muzo Aka Alphonso Quotes

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country. ~ Alphonso Jackson

The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution ~ Madonna Ciccone

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat. ~ Alphonso Jackson

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition. ~ Alphonso Jackson

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years. ~ Alphonso Jackson

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. ~ Alphonso Jackson

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Resentment secretes images that obscure your view of the present and distort your memory of the past. Resentment is a positive force of mendacity. ~ Alphonso Lingis

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality. ~ Alphonso Jackson

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. ~ Alphonso Jackson

If a guy breaks your heart, break his arm, then go get some icecream:) ~ Fairy (Aka-Anna Diesing)

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. ~ Alphonso Jackson

God is another word for Love. ~ Stacy Snapp-Killian Aka StacyK

And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've heard it called love.
("I Won't Take a Minute" aka "I'll Just Be a Minute" aka "Wait for Me Downstairs" aka "Finger Of Doom") ~ Cornell Woolrich

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die") ~ Cornell Woolrich

A man who works hard and uses his wealth to purchase jewelry to adorn himself, suits tailored in London, shoes handmade in Rome, and a hundred-thousand-dollar sportscar, which he drives cautiously and keeps in meticulous repair, will be view ~ Alphonso Lingis

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin. ~ Alphonso Jackson

My life's choices would never tell the whole story because there has always been a different ending. ~ Mark Nielson Aka Mizarkbxpoescriber

You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect. ~ Alphonso Lingis

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That) ~ James Delingpole

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America ~ Todd Park

Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others. ~ Alphonso Lingis

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America. ~ Alphonso Jackson

We can't change the way people think only the way they feel. ~ Nitin Patel Aka Needles

Spread love not hate, so that we can live and die in peace. ~ AKA

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Spirit means Breath and without one or the other there is no life. ~ Stacy Snapp Killian Aka StacyK

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you. ~ John Yang Aka Private83

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future. ~ Stacy Snapp-Killian Aka StacyK

Look where YOU have been; view where YOU are at; seek where YOU want to be. ~ Gwendolyn Moore Aka Mozette

I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate. ~ AKA

The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future. ~ John Yang Aka Private83

We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do. ~ Alphonso Jackson

The secret to gaining the whole world is to keep your soul. ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars. ~ Alphonso Lingis

The most procession that ever comes to a man in this world is a women's heart. ~ Josiah G Holland AKA Timothy Titcomb

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad
aka the Fun-Sucker
as opposed to being a friend. ~ James Patterson

Those of us with Big Hearts are like Big Banks, we are too Big to fail! ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

I can't judge a person off of their past, I can only judge off the present.....Truthly Speaking ~ T.R.B Aka.TruthlySpeaking

In the city people are moving down sidewalks, up and down escalators, along aisles; they are stationed in the driver's seat of buses, at gas pumps, computers, and cash registers. There is a low-intensity fear in them. They avoid turning in certain directions, flailing their arms or poking their hands in certain ways. They respect invisible barriers. ~ Alphonso Lingis

It's ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine ~ Pittacus Lore

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today ~ Bill Buxton

If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free! ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

To know God is to know yourself! ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life. ~ John Yang Aka Private83

There are transcendent collective events. There is anger spreading through the streets of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, anger marking in black the unallowable, the intolerable, anger that hurls itself beyond all that can reasonably be expected or demanded. This anger is the most precious gift of the disinherited to tourists and academics who have imprisoned their hearts through so many years of well-paid compromises and betrayals ~ Alphonso Lingis

We would not know what happens if we did not know extreme pleasure, if we did not know extreme pain! It is because we sense that the only way to know what we are capable of, what we care about, what we fear, is to plunge into insecurity, loneliness, hunger, and cold, that we leave home to hitchhike across the country. ~ Alphonso Lingis

And what else is erotic craving but a craving to be violated? In voluptuous turmoil, we are left not simply wounded, but shattered. The violent emotions that are aroused, that sense the obscenity in anguish, that push on in a momentum that can no longer derail or control itself, sense also the exultation of risking oneself, of plunging into the danger zone, of expending our forces at a loss. ~ Alphonso Lingis

Genes are overrated...

Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person; its always been YOU! ~ Dr Deepak Hiwale, Aka 'The Fitness Doc'

The violation of the existence and natures of things, of oneself, or of others is evil. Disrespect encroaches upon the space of others, and alters or empties their nature. Respect is respect for the limits, the boundaries, the space of others, and thus for their natures. Morally good action designates the active respect for others, for things, and also for ourselves. ~ Alphonso Lingis

A question is not a supplication, an entreaty, nor a velleity for knowledge just put out in the air; it is already an order, a command. (Beggars, the destitute, pupils, factory workers, enlisted soldiers, prisoners, and patients have no right to question; they can only entreat.) A question commands a certain focus of attention, a selection of resources on hand, a certain type of language. It lays down a direction; it imposes a directive to think further down a certain track. ~ Alphonso Lingis

Yet we are also drawn to people who are not exemplary, who do not illustrate good sense and responsibility, who are temperamental as stallions, mercurial as falcons, sensual as cheetahs. Before them we relax our compulsion to judge, no longer feel that they have a responsibility to answer to and for what they do and say. We are enthralled by the human animal, the animality in
humans, the traits humans acquire in symbiosis with noble animals. ~ Alphonso Lingis

Stop searching for that perfect person you hope for. Stop searching for someone who would meet the standards you set as spouse material, instead love the one who's already next to you, who has always been there for you, and never done you wrong. Perfection doesn't exist in anyone, including you. ~ John Yang Aka Private83

The shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning!
... But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing up for me, sometimes we do grow up in 3 seconds after we express something! ... yes we do! ~ Madura Aka Tirunelveli Tamizhachchi

When we attend to someone who greets us, it is not to require confirmation, attestation, certification of our identity. To respond to someone who greets us is to drop our concerns and thoughts, and expose ourselves to her. It is to expose ourselves to questioning and judgment. Simply responding to her greeting is to recognize her rights over us. Each time we enter into conversation we expose ourselves to being altered or emptied out, emptied of our convictions, our expectations, our memories. ~ Alphonso Lingis

You were the one they used against us, Bruce. The one who played it rough. When the noise started from the parents' groups and the sub-committee called us for questioning ... you were the one who laughed ... that scary laugh of yours. "Sure, we're criminals", you said. "We've always been criminals". "We have to be criminals".
Kal-El aka Clark Kent aka Superman ~ Frank Miller

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine. ~ John Yang Aka Private83

Awakening is a bound, not weighted down with the past that inculpates the present and demands compensation from the future, a bound out of the drunkenness of remorse and resentment. Awakening is a commencement. It is a point of departure. We come alive; we become alive
to the dragonfly, to the twisted grain of the porch railing. Awakening is a birth. Awakening is joyous. The innocence of awakening, the active disconnection from the past, make possible this joy. How good to be alive! How refreshing is this silence! How calm the morning is! How pungent it smells! In every joy there is an awakening. ~ Alphonso Lingis

When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison. ~ Ray McGovern

I'm going to kill them all - Stanley aka Nine ~ Pittacus Lore

...the Vegetable World has a higher significance than either the education of man's intellect, or even the maintenance of animal life. With its sweet influences, man's heart, - his moral nature, is in intimate communion; and through them, God reveals himself to the soul in his most endearing attributes. By the teachings of the Vegetable World the tone of our moral being is affected in no small degree, and flowers are often interwoven with the web of human destiny. In a word, the heart of man is susceptible of no purer or more enduring earthly pleasure, than that which it experiences in its free communion with the exhaustless beauties of the Vegetable World. ~ Alphonso Wood

L'enfer c'est les autres.
aka, "Hell is others." . ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

From Time for College - Mr. Chiardi & Other Stories

It was time for Junior to go to college. He'd sprouted pubic hair and was eyeing all the girls.
"I want to go to college," he said.
"Yes," I replied, "It's time."
His mother, my wife, was resigned to the fact that it was time for Junior to leave the nest. She sat on a stool at the granite kitchen counter, spiked coffee beside her, reading The New York Times. She looked almost real. ~ Rita Buckley Aka Charles Maxwell

You need me," he said. "And I'm all yours."

~Tommy aka "Ender ~ Sydney Croft

Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997) ~ Jack Nicholson

no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact. ~ Ernest Cline

Guns' aka Luke Gunner had a record as long as my cock. Believe me, it was impressive." ~Lloyd Ledbetter ~ Eva LeNoir

You don't have to seduce me, you know. I"m a sure thing."

~Tommy aka "Ender ~ Sydney Croft

I believe that marijuana, aka cannabis should be recognized for what it is - an effective herb, grown from soil and seed, nurtured by sun and rain. ~ Edward R. Cook

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones' (aka Amiri Baraka's) play Dutchman. You'd better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn't make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death. ~ Frank B. Wilderson III

Every evening the girls of the house gathered about me on the mats, and after chasing away Kory-Kory from my side - who nevertheless, retired only to a little distance and watched their proceedings with the most jealous attention - would anoint my whole body with a fragrant oil, squeezed from a yellow root, previously pounded between a couple of stones, and which in their language is denominated 'aka'. And most refreshing and agreeable are the juices of the 'aka', when applied to ones, limbs by the soft palms of sweet nymphs, whose bright eyes are beaming upon you with kindness; and I used to hail with delight the daily recurrence of this luxurious operation, in which I forgot all my troubles, and buried for the time every feeling of sorrow. Sometimes ~ Herman Melville

We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama ~ Tanya Masse

Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions. ~ Richie Norton

There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) ~ Tom McDonough

I've thought about how you'd taste," he said, in a low, guttural voice, and she whimpered, arched against his mouth.

"Jesus," he panted. "It's like a fucking drug."

~Tommy aka "Ender ~ Sydney Croft

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) ~ Tom McDonough

What's more they are also some of the best-paid entertainers in history: Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, raked in U.S. $150 million in 2008 alone, placing him on top of Forbes's "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" list. ~ Peter Mcallister

In the old days (aka the '90s), he could blow you off, say, two ways. Now, there are eighteen forms of rejection. We feel obliged to go through each and every form, just to re-re-re-reconfirm that he's not into us. ~ Anonymous

You'll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer ~ Steen Langstrup

My name's Alis K. From now on you will be Willy. Come on, let's push the bicycles for a bit."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer ~ Steen Langstrup

Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called luciferin ~ Jeri Smith-Ready

The richness of our ethnic insults vocabulary was wide and deep. It reflected, all too easily, the more elaborate predjiduces of our parents (not my parents), which in their rabid form, had already resulted in tribal bloodbaths. ~ Andrei Codrescu

He saw the tears running down her cheeks, knew there was still more than a little resistance in her gait, but she'd just saved herself. And maybe, somehow, she'd saved him a little too.

~Tommy aka "Ender ~ Sydney Croft

COVID-19, also known as Mother Nature's Revenge! ~ Steven Magee

Authority is the source of knowledge, but the reason of mankind is the norm by which all authority is judged.

Eóin, the Irish Gael AKA Johannes Scotus Eriugena (b.815 - d.877) ~ Johannes Scottus Eriugena

We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup ~ Steen Langstrup

Decent is the last way I want you, she said, skimming her fingers over my stomach, my lower stomach. My lower lower stomach, AKA the last part of exposed skin that, had my towel been hanging any lower, would have been considered indecent. ~ Nicole Williams

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion . ~ Youns Hussein

We come home (aka the parents)... we get angry... we throw it off in home... today... tomorrow and the next few weeks...

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We feel better, but we don't know what type of damage are we creating within one child. ~ Deyth Banger

I've seen you in action, BB. You get turned on by danger. You are seeking danger. The only reason you're with me is the risk of getting caught by your wife."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup ~ Steen Langstrup

all adventures involving knowledge and imagination. When Marielle drives crosstown from east to west along Sherbrooke Street in her old Plymouth, aka 'Violet,' it is 'a carousel of history and geography,' it is about straddling grammar and going off to explore the inner recesses of the images and life irrigating the brain. ~ Nicole Brossard

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!' ~ Sean Bean

Even if alien visitors did decide to drop by this utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact. Not unless their plan was to destroy our civilization by wiping out our least interesting locales first. ~ Ernest Cline

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. ~ Jeff Goodell

All human beings are connected. It's like we're all holding onto ropes that tie to each other. The bond is closer and stronger with people you've met; the longer or better you know someone, the easier it is to tune into their energy. ~ Brownell Landrum

Back from the funeral, we think we felt the grim reaper swing close; we feel him stalking us. We ward off anxiety before the imminent and inescapable annihilation awaiting us by establishing control over our life and field of operations, by projecting an advance representation of what each day brings, and by measuring our enterprises to our forces. We arrange our home and our situation and our workday in such a way that we retain, behind the forms of our performances, a reserve of force for the tasks that will recur the next day. We settle into an occupation that requires only those mental tasks for which we have already contracted the mental skills. We frame our pleasures and our angers, our affections and our vexations, in the patterns and confines of feelings we can repeat indefinitely. We avoid going to places utterly unlike any other, which would leave us wholly astonished, with an astonishment that could never recur. We seek out partners others might also fall in love with, and we love our partner as others love like partners, with a love that we could recycle for another partner should we lose this one. For we sense that were we to expend all our forces on an adventure, discharge all our mental powers on a problem, empty out all the love in our heart on a woman or a man unlike any other, we would be dying in that adventure, that problem, that love. ~ Alphonso Lingis