Asturian Leonese Quotes & Sayings

Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel. — Brian Staveley

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

Clergy are men as well as other folks. — Henry Fielding

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat. — Charles Spurgeon

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop. — Ewan McGregor

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. — Socrates

Imagine yourself standing on a shore: waves rhythmically rising, rising, and then suddenly they stay there, they set, they freeze. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Buddhist say that thoughts are like drops of water on the brain; when you reinforce the same thought, it will etch a new stream into your consciousness, like water eroding the side of a mountain. Scientist confirm this bit of folk wisdom: our neurons break connections and form new pathways all the time. Even if you've been programmed to fear death, that particular pathway isn't set in stone. Each of us is responsible for seeking out new knowledge and creating mental circuits. — Caitlin Doughty

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do. — Karl Lagerfeld

We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done. — Jermaine O'Neal

But one thing was for certain: something would happen next. Something always did. Especially when you live the life of a spy. — Embee

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. — Annie Dillard

By all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. — E.L. James