Agulhas Vulcanicas Quotes & Sayings

If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it. — Ryuhei Kitamura

From then on, as long as I was at Ault, I would never be alone. Martha and I would get along, our friendship would last. I felt certainty and relief. Years later, I heard a minister at a wedding describe marriage as cutting sorrow in half and doubling joy, and what I thought of was not the guy I was seeing then, nor even of some perfect, imaginary husband I might meet later; I thought immediately of Martha. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness. — Esther Perel

Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman and James Schaap (Eerdmans, 1994). — Kathryn J. Atwood

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white. — William James

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. — Robert Browning

Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. — Walter Benjamin

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. — Camille Claudel

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future. — Ahmed Zewail

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. — Robert Casey

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River. — Ron Kind