Alumbrada Quotes & Sayings

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up. — Jim Butcher

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful. — Kevin Keegan

I haven't been a good guest in Hugo's life. I access his memories and discover that he and Austin first became boyfriends at this very celebration, a year ago this weekend. They'd been friends for a little while, but they'd never talked about how they felt. They were each afraid of ruining the friendship, and instead of making it better, their caution made everything awkward. So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, "Hey, that could be us in ten years."
And Hugo said, "Or ten months."
And Austin said, "Or ten days."
And Hugo said, "Or ten minutes."
And Austin said, "Or ten seconds."
Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day.
The start of it.
Hugo would have remembered this.
But I didn't. — David Levithan

You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it. — Frederick Lenz

Expect the best and get it. — Norman Vincent Peale

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. — J.D. Salinger

You only get one life.
Too bad you already made a mess of it. — Peter James West

The head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, made it perfectly clear: sophisticated investors don't, or at least shouldn't, rely on trust. Those who bought the products the banks sold were consenting adults who should have known better. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

Another afternoon: I'm unshaven, dishes are fermenting in the kitchen sink and my shirt smells like a teenage boy's bedroom. There were no clean spoons around the house so I ate cottage cheese with a plastic tortoiseshell shoehorn that was lying next to the couch - so I guess I've hit a new personal low. — Douglas Coupland

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — George Gordon Byron