Abeto Blanco Quotes & Sayings

If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit. — Guy Burnet

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that. — David Nicholls

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss

When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans. — Ally McCoist

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it. — Rajneesh

Annoyance ran over his face. We've crossed that point, Lila. If you want to backtrack — Nora Roberts

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal. — Bobby Orr

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is. — Charles Spurgeon

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain
leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart. — Brandon Sanderson

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. — Elizabeth Strout

I am going to save your daughter. And then I intend to marry her. I would like your blessing in this, but I can live without it. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for? — Danielle Paige