Acabemos Quotes & Sayings

All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool. — David Levithan

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet. — Jason Hawes

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. — C.S. Lewis

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality. — Kurt Cobain

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution. — Benazir Bhutto

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy. — Robert Lacey

In short, the remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. In — Bill Bryson

Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people often fail. — Scott Kenemore

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile. — Ellie Goulding

You know better than I," he said, "that all courts-martial are farces and that you're really paying for the crimes of
other people, because this time we're going to win the war at any price. Wouldn't you have done the same in my place?"
General Moncada got up to clean his thick horn-rimmed glasses on his shirttail. "Probably," he said. "But what
worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on
the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went on "is that out of so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness." He took off his wedding ring and the medal of the Virgin of Help and put them alongside his glasses and watch.
"At this rate," he concluded, "you'll not only be the most despotic and bloody dictator in our history, but you'll shoot
my dear friend Ursula in an attempt to pacify your conscience. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They had not learnt the great lesson, that trade prospers best when it is left alone by law-makers. — Louise Creighton

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. — John Lone

Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty. — Edward Norton

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. — Boris Johnson

I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times. — Lydia Ko