Anzures Puebla Quotes & Sayings

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant. — Kedar Joshi

Your violin has only two strings," I say. "You're missing the other two."
Yes, he says. He's well aware.
"All I want to do is play music, and the crisis I'm having is right here. This one's gone," he says of the missing top string, "that one's gone, and this little guy's almost out of commission." His goal in life, Nathaniel tells me, is to figure out how to replace the strings. But he got used to playing imperfect instruments while taking music classes in Cleveland's public schools, and there's a lot you can do, he assures me, with just two strings — Steve Lopez

And yet this god, this old god from the Old World, somehow made her feel small. It was only for a moment, but Aphrodite blinked under the weight of his stare - his scrutiny. — Liz Meldon

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood. — Meghan Daum

Noodle snapped. No more cookies in the cookie jar. — Stacey Marie Brown

The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm not wicked." "Jensen, you've spent three years lying low, trying to make everything right. But you can't redeem yourself. You can't make yourself and your life whole again. God can. — Susan May Warren

As a society we certainly equate speed with smarts. Think fast. Are you quick-witted? A quick study? A whiz kid? Even Merriam-Webster bluntly informs us that slowness is "the quality of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind." But we also recognize something counter-intuitive about accepting full-stop that people who react faster are smarter. That's why, even though athletic training improves reaction time, we wouldn't scout for the next Einstein at a basketball game. Intelligence probably has a lot to do with making fast connections, but it surely has just as much to do with making the right connections. — Anonymous

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. — Leo Tolstoy

The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength. — Saleem Sharma

When I started out I was a failed actor. — David Mamet

My dogs love me. Of course, by love I mean poop and by me I mean everywhere. — Dana Gould

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan