Aranjuez Palace Quotes & Sayings

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire. — Charles R. Swindoll

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves. — Mahatma Gandhi

The clarity of perception
makes reality look as it is. — Toba Beta

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. — Alfred Jarry

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer. — Zooey Deschanel

Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies. — Travis Beacham

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. — Alan Kay

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. — T.F. Hodge

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. — Marilyn Monroe

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. — Charles Dickens

In my family, a book can be a life raft. — Alice Hoffman