Adecuados Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. — Francis Ford Coppola

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. — Michel De Montaigne

I talk too much but I don't tell enough. — Simone Van Der Vlugt

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it - to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes? — G. Bruce Boyer

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one. — Joshua Ferris

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love. — John Friend

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be. — Jan Karon

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim. — George Farquhar

Humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don't have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth. Rather, we focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly. — Dan Ariely

But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned.
"Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."
It was small consolation. — Chris Stewart

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. — Elizabeth Streb

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity. — Peter Kreeft

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves. — Anne Hill

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable. — Sandra Bullock