Afectadas Quotes & Sayings

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. — Alain De Botton

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. — Thom Mayne

He was a man too busy to flush toilets. — Mona Simpson

In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

And what if they don't respond to your call?" June says. I shoot her a quick smile. "Have some faith, sweetheart. The people love me. — Marie Lu

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped. — Glenda Millard

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness. — Neal A. Maxwell

What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more. — Emil Cioran

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian

Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him. — Tony Hawks