Assentar Azulejos Quotes & Sayings

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom. — Roz Inga

Once decided in his mind on a given picture of what some aspect of life was like, he objected to any modification of the design. He possessed an absolutely rigid view of human relationships. Into this, imagination scarcely entered, and whatever was lost in grasping the niceties of character was amply offset by a simplification of practical affairs. Occasionally, it was true. I had known Widmerpool involved in situations which were extraordinary chiefly because they were entirely misunderstood, but on the whole he probably gained more than he lost by these limitations; at least in the spheres that attracted him. — Anthony Powell

Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid. — N.K. Jemisin

I miss the girl I was, and I wish I could tell her that. But she got hurt really bad and I've been waiting such a long time for her to be okay again. I bet she never dreamed she would live so long, or do the things she can do now. I wish I could tell her what she'd grow up to be, how strange and beautiful and unexpected she'd be. She'd probably feel a lot better if she knew. The sky and the stars are brilliant, and I think of how much she would have loved this. — Austin Grossman

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.
— Sarra Manning

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. — William Weld

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. — Arthur Koestler