Aplastemos El Quotes & Sayings

What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies. — Margaret Atwood

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease. — Jack Kevorkian

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' — Ben Fountain

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart. — Mata Amritanandamayi

It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their own forging, viz. — Jakob Bohme

I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact. — Donald Berwick

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves. — Lynne Truss

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches. — Russell Baker

I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win. — John Pilger

What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else's. — Frederick Lenz

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them? — George Gordon Byron

With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream. — Ralph Webster

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write. — Lurlene McDaniel

What you think of yourself is what you will become. — Lailah Gifty Akita