Altagracia Wine Quotes & Sayings

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on. — Bertrand Russell

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. — Deborah Day

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist. — Jose Saramago

There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means- either will do- the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are very wise you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. — Benjamin Franklin

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself? — Samuel Johnson

If you really search your heart, I think you'll realize that we were never right for each other as more than friends." ~Grace, Ch.28 — Mia Sheridan

Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die. — John Green

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth. — Alexander MacLaren

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read. — Winston S. Churchill

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes. — Sylvia Earle

They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. — Ursula K. Le Guin