Alberto Cortez Quotes & Sayings

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. — Euripides

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day. — Tina Fey

Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me and my heart is sick within me!
Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!
(A Rebours, final words) — Joris-Karl Huysmans

I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say. — Luis Suarez

Is there anything more embarrassing than sailing into battle with half-finished figureheads? -Loki — Rick Riordan

Your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions). — Paul Dilascia

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. — Hillary Clinton

To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe. — Aleksandr Voinov

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg. — Timothy Olyphant

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out. — Robin Hobb

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born. — Margaret Millar

Positive change is mobile, if you don't push it, it won't move but when you push it, it will definitely move with you. — Peter A. Preye