Almendro Palitos Quotes & Sayings

Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were so on principle. Some (though by no means all) turned up drunk, but they seemed to regard it as some new manifestation of grace they had discovered only the day before. They all appeared to be quite extraordinarily proud of something. On all faces was written that they had only just discovered some highly important secret. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company. — Benjamin Whichcote

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous. — Alphonsus Liguori

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. — Philip K. Dick

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition. — Regina Brett

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ. — John Climacus

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things. — Natalie Dormer

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing. — Ed Speleers

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa. — Vonda Shepard