Apertura Economica Quotes & Sayings

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye. — Paul Fry

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true. — John Hagelin

Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people. — Norval Morrisseau

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame De Stael

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him. — Giannina Braschi

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.' — Carl Crawford

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity. — Howard G. Hendricks

MIMIC He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. WM-ST-63 — Kahlil Gibran

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day's end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest? — Mark Buchanan

So you're saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that's probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure. — Rachel Vincent

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. — Roger Bannister

Commissioning a study of a thousand pages may jeopardize a certain project efficiently. — Eraldo Banovac