Balanzas Mecanicas Quotes & Sayings

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. — Sugata Mitra

Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books. — James Fenimore Cooper

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater ... — Bill Mollison

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world. — P.G. Wodehouse

A cupcake temple?' Her chest still tight with anxiety, Bertie forced herself to imagine it: bricks of pound cake mortared with buttercream and chocolate ganache, torches like striped birthday candles set into the walls, pilgrims upon the Path of Delectable Righteousness delivering daily tributes of almond paste and raspberry filling ... — Lisa Mantchev

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither. — Christmas Humphreys

Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Independence. Freedom. Liberty. These have become bywords of our time. And yet we hardly understand the terms at all anymore ... The assumption is now nearly automatic that freedom is without substance. It is an extrinsic condition, and a negative at that. It means that there are no strings upon the autonomous self. It is ... freedom as license, as a permission slip to do as you please. It is freedom that worships the abstraction of choice: choice is the only thing that matters; whether it is one choice or another matters not at all. — Anthony Esolen

It's quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal cords, and you move your lips and tongue. Or, to put it another way, you speak. — Juli Zeh

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato ... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched. — Plato

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. — Iris Chang

I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I lay my body down in another city, another hotel room. Once Louis Armstrong and his band stayed here. Later the hotel fell to trash. New money resurrected it. Under the red moon of justice, I dream with the king of jazz. — Joy Harjo