Badosa Paula Quotes & Sayings

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow. — David Jones

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play. — Tom Stoppard

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. — George Crabbe

The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance. — Gustave Le Bon

The town draws a veil over certain events. This is a small community where everyone knows that sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember. Children can grow up having no knowledge of the indiscretion of their father in his youth or the illegitimate sibling who lives fifty miles away and bears another man's name. History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. That's how life goes on; protected by the silence that anaesthetises shame. — M.L. Stedman

Playing goal is like being shot at. — Jacques Plante

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers. — Croft M. Pentz

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau

Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols. — Kerry Greenwood

Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences. — Georgette Heyer

Am I dealing with stubbornness, idiocy, or some combination of the two?"
"-Cam Rohan — Lisa Kleypas

The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

In other words: what we call history is the specific form in which the cycles of nature are acted out in man-made form. A quote from Goethe comes to mind as particularly illustrative: 'Colour is a law of nature in relation with the sense of sight.'[2] By analogy we might say with Spengler that culture is a law of nature in relation with human minds (the plural is an important qualification here). — Oswald Spengler