Agradecerle A La Quotes & Sayings

We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human - what Lesser means by "grandeur and intimacy" - and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified. — William Giraldi

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess. — Garry Kasparov

It was the way he communicated it, while still being the man's man that he was, the alpha, who liked being in charge — Kailin Gow

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves. — John Lithgow

One [event] is the discovery of the anesthetic properties of chloroform [in 1847] by James Simpson of Scotland. Following the reports of [William] Morton's demonstration [1846], he tried ether but, dissatisfied, searched for a substitute and came upon chlorophorm. He was an obstetrician. His use of anesthesia to alleviate the pains of childbirth was violently opposed by the Scottish clergy on the ground that pain was ordained by the scriptural command, "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children", and that it was impious to attempt to avert it by anesthetic agents. And it was Simpson who stilled this opposition by his own famous quotation from scripture; he pointed out that when Eve was born, God cast Adam into deep sleep before performing upon him the notable costalectomy. Anesthesia was thus permissible by scriptural precedent. — Howard Wilcox Haggard

The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press. Above all, they inflame patriotism in this way: perpetrating every kind of harshness and injustice against other nations, they provoke in them enmity towards their own people, and then in turn exploit that enmity to embitter their people against the foreigner. — Leo Tolstoy

I glance at Jayden - he turns his head to meet my gaze. He doesn't say anything. He doesn't smile or reassure me. He just looks at me and then looks away. — Dannielle Wicks

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Play the music that best describes you
Make the music that comes from your Heart. — Lebogang Lynx Bopape

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important. — Berry Gordy

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all."
"Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise.
"You've lied to me all these years! — Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner. — Jim Davis

As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing. — Nikita Gill

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it. — Theodore Dalrymple

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? — Steven Wright