Araneta Quotes & Sayings

Poetry should be made by all and not by one. — Comte De Lautreamont

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters. — Hannah Kent

My landlord is blase' about the crisis and hands me a newspaper. It isn't for reading. This evening, I decide, I'm not going to be Cuban. I grab my passport from the closet and make for the nearest hotel bathroom. — Lisa Wixon

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born. — Lisa Loeb

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun. — David Lodge

On the surface, we are all different. We ascribe to a variety of belief systems, attain our identity from various stories, get our customs from diverse cultures, and so on. And, rightly or wrongly, we generally define ourselves by these differences - there is no denying that. However, when we look beneath the surface, we discover certain universal elements. — Gudjon Bergmann

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy. — Rabindranath Tagore

But something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging. — Paulo Coelho

The Mormons had been planning to run the human race's first extrasolar colony from a place that would have been equally at home as an accounting office. It felt anticlimactic. Hello, welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star! Here's your cubicle. — James S.A. Corey

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold. — David Rudisha

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving. — Pearl Zhu

There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolution that for all we know some of the best examples of evolution may be due to this nonheritable kind of variation. [It] has been observed, is well known, and is well documented. — Lee Spetner

Life is a matter of choice, while death is a matter of time. — Harold Araneta

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. — Kato Lomb